Glastonbury among those to share £400m from Covid recovery fund
by Mark Brown Arts correspondents from on (#5G378)
Culture secretary announces details of second tranche of grants and loans for arts and heritage sector
More than 2,700 arts and heritage organisations, from Glastonbury festival to Bamburgh Castle to the Young Vic, are to share 400m in grants and loans from the UK government's culture recovery fund.
The culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, announced details of the second big tranche of money from a 1.57bn fund, which was unveiled last July after warnings that the UK faced an irreversible cultural catastrophe" without significant intervention.
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