{"id":44378,"date":"2025-10-17T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44378"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:11:18","slug":"new-uk-town-of-culture-competition-to-celebrate-our-national-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44378","title":{"rendered":"New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The contributions of towns across the UK to our national life will be celebrated through a new competition, the Culture Secretary has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Government UK writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK Town of Culture competition will see multiple towns competing to win the title with the winning town delivering a cultural programme, which will help to boost pride in place by shining a spotlight on multiple towns and enabling them to tell their unique story.&nbsp; The competition will build on the success of the UK City of Culture programme, which has seen significant lasting impacts across winning cities of Derry\/LondonDerry, Hull and Coventry.&nbsp; The current UK City of Culture, Bradford, is delivering significant benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the first six months of the programme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over 11,000 school children have benefitted from Bradford 2025 education programmes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 40,000 local people participated in cultural events in the programme<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 2,000 people from every ward in the district have volunteered, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over 4,000 people have benefitted from Bradford 2025 training programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The new competition will sit alongside the existing UK City of Culture initiative. The Culture Secretary has confirmed that the department will be running a UK City of Culture competition for 2029, which will launch shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further details on both competitions will be shared in due course.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-uk-town-of-culture-competition-to-celebrate-our-national-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contributions of towns across the UK to our national life will be celebrated through a new competition, the Culture Secretary has announced.<\/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":[40,122,36,33,30,16,322,244,45,140],"class_list":["post-44378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-community","tag-competition","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-planning","tag-towns","tag-training","tag-urban","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44378","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=44378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44379,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44378\/revisions\/44379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}