{"id":32273,"date":"2022-01-18T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32273"},"modified":"2022-01-17T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:48:47","slug":"targeted-funds-of-65-million-for-scotlands-culture-and-events-to-help-ease-impact-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32273","title":{"rendered":"Targeted funds of \u00a365 million for Scotland\u2019s culture and events to help ease impact of pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader leader--first-para\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-27213\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pound_blue-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"137\" \/>Details of a financial package worth \u00a365 million for culture and major events to help ease impact of pandemic have been confirmed by the Culture Secretary Angus Robertson.<!--more--><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 Museums, galleries and heritage &#8211; \u00a31.7 million\u2026. fully committed to supporting culture and events while they recover from the impact of the COVID\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The Scottish Government writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a365 million to help ease impact of pandemic [has been announced]&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The split of the funding is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>for cultural businesses, organisations, venues and independent cinema support and grassroots venues &#8211; \u00a331.5 million<\/li>\n<li>National Performing Companies (for Christmas losses and touring fund re-purposing) &#8211; \u00a32 million<\/li>\n<li>Freelancers &#8211; \u00a310 million<\/li>\n<li>Events sector &#8211; \u00a319.8 million<\/li>\n<li>Museums, galleries and heritage &#8211; \u00a31.7 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Culture Secretary Angus Robertson said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is once again causing disruption and uncertainty in the culture and events sector, who have already been hit so hard by its impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been engaging with the sector about the impact of the Omicron variant and we are fully committed to supporting culture and events while they recover from the impact of the COVID \u2013 and we are aware of just how important they are to Scotland, and indeed the wider recovery from this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese additional funds will help protect the livelihoods of the people working in the sector \u2013 and allow us to give further support to freelancers, culture organisations, venues and our national performing companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Creative Scotland\u2019s Cancellation Fund for Creative Freelancers opens for applications on Thursday this week\u00a0at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Creative Scotland\u2019s Chief Executive Iain Munro said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very grateful for this significant increase in emergency funding from the Scottish Government which reflects the severity\u00a0of the challenges being faced by Scotland\u2019s culture sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Cancellation Fund for Creative Freelancers is live, with applications open\u00a0from 6 January, and\u00a0more information on support for organisations and venues will follow as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VisitScotland Director of Events Paul Bush said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Government\u2019s commitment of \u00a319.8 million for Scotland\u2019s events sector is welcome news as the industry continues to deal with the latest challenges presented by the pandemic and the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventScotland is currently working with the Scottish Government and the Event Industry Advisory Group (EIAG) to determine the best way of distributing the funding to ensure we get support to those in need across the sector, and details on this will be shared shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/targeted-funds-for-culture-and-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of a financial package worth \u00a365 million for culture and major events to help ease impact of pandemic have been confirmed by the Culture Secretary Angus Robertson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32275,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions\/32275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}