£1.57bn lifeline for gig venues and theatres

How theatre can reopen during the pandemic

Mr Dowden said the package is all"new money" and has two broad aims - to preserve"crown jewel" venues like the Royal Albert Hall and national galleries, while also helping local institutions across the UK. The rescue package has been warmly welcomed by many arts leaders, some of whom said they thought it to be at the upper end of what had been hoped for. The Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, who has been under pressure from the arts and heritage sector to deliver a meaningful funding solution to a crisis brought about by Covid-19, feels vindicated that his behind-closed-doors approach to negotiations with the Treasury has paid off.

The £1.15bn support pot for cultural organisations in England is made up of £880m in grants and £270m of repayable loans. The government said the loans would be"issued on generous terms". Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the money"will help safeguard the sector for future generations, ensuring arts groups and venues across the UK can stay afloat".Mr Dowden said arts and culture were"the soul of our nation". He said:"They make our country great and are the lynchpin of our world-beating and fast growing creative industries."

Julian Knight, Conservative chairman of the House of Commons culture select committee, said more action would be needed. He added:"This fund provides the opportunity to stabilise and protect our vibrant and vital network of venues and gives us the time we need to create a plan to safely reopen live music."

So that's 1.5 billion for London and the rest for the rest...

The arts, soooo important to the people 🤷‍♂️

Good news but money needs to make its way to freelancers and companies not just venues .. we will likely need to survive from Feb 2020 to spring 2022 without a big revenue hit.. as a company that not NPO how can we be expected to last this long...

Expellimoneyous

BBCPolitics Majority will go to London as usual

night Yes 🙌🏿🎉

night The lowest in Europe.

night How much will BBC get?

night Another Government afterthought 👍

From your own figures, about £1.35 is going to the arts in England. What the other governments spend it on is up to them. How do you not understand the basics of devolution?

Suddenly there's magic money trees sprouting up everywhere! What about cutting your cloth according to your means? Our childrens generations will be paying back the debt for years to come!

All theatres should rebrand as Pubs! Alongside Gym's, soft-plays and places of worship. Take out all the seats and let people get drunk whilst entertainment is being provided. Just like watching the football really. (no cheering or singing along.)

BBCPolitics No Pantomines this Christmas? Never mind we have Boris 52 weeks of the year.

Waste of money. Industry full of stuck up champagne socialists.

so there was a Magic Money tree !

I think it will need more that’s not as much as other countries put into theirs

Ghana government where are you? I hope you are seeing this? Ghana GHANA accra there are people who’s jobs are still on lockdown and I have been asking for long now, what are you our ghana government doing to support us? 😔😔😔 konkrumah NAkufoAddo

Don't forget circuses..

But but but.... what will the left have to complain about now?!

And how much is going to help comedians and the comedy industry?

Those seat look like old 125 LNER train seats 😆

That's nothing. RobertJenrick hands out contracts for building developments worth twice that just over lunch.

Shamed into doing too little too late yet again .

While social distancing remains in place, theatres will not be able to make a profit.

£1.57bn is nothing

You mean the UK government that hasn’t kept a promise or told the truth?

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