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£43m funding for North East arts

The North East will receive £43m to fund and maintain arts projects across the region over the next three years, according to thelatest announcement from the Arts Council North East. Funding will be used to invest in and support new projects as well as existing schemes.

Among the 73 organisations benefiting from the funding are Middlesbrough’s Institute of Modern Art, Tyneside’s Baltic centre and the Tees Music Alliance.

Eighteen organisations in the region will lose their funding altogether, however most of these are local authorities which will no longer exist under a reorganisation that will see single unitary councils take control.

Mark Robinson, Executive Director, Arts Council England, North East said: “The arts in the North East have changed radically over the last ten years. We will be funding a set of outstanding organisations to deliver a real diversity of arts to regional audiences, and the growing number of visitors attracted to the North East by our artists, building, festivals and events. They will also provide a real opportunity for artists of today and tomorrow.”

For more information on the funding, visit www.artscouncil.org.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .