Arts Council announces Lottery plans for the regions

Arts Council England is to make a “significant shift” in the distribution of Lottery funding to be invested outside of London over the next three years, according to its new Chief Executive, Darren Henley.

In his inaugural speech, he said: “It’s the Arts Council’s ambition to support centres of creative excellence across the country.” Henley welcomed the Government’s commitment to cultural investment in Manchester as part of its plans for a ‘Northern Powerhouse’, but sees this as extending across the north of England: “Imagine a corridor of culturally driven regeneration all along the M62, linking Hull with Liverpool, and taking in Manchester and Leeds. I call it ‘The M62 Corridor of Culture’.”

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