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Arts Council Support Creative Leicestershire
The Creative Leicestershire programme has been awarded a significant grant from Arts Council England to support the arts sector in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The programme, which is hosted by Leicestershire County Council, will receive £75,000 to run 4 projects over 2 years from April 2012.
Clare Hudson, Creative Industries Manager, said ‘This is great news for our programme – enabling us to run a range of programmes to support the arts sector in hard times. We’ll be able to help emerging freelance artists, performers and writers through a new mentoring scheme. We’ll also be supporting organizations which rely on public sector contracts and private sector support to gather evidence on what they do and present it to their funders and clients. Finally, our new ‘how to buy art’ project includes an artist’s film commission and will be a fun way to support the art/interiors market from a buyers point of view.’
The funding will pay for a mentoring programme for emerging artists and arts managers with small training bursaries for mentees; training for arts organizations in measuring and meeting social outcomes for public sector contracts; economic impact research into the arts sector and networking with commercial business sector; and a project to encourage and stimulate domestic art buying.
If you would like to benefit from these programmes, join Creative Leicestershire’s free mailing list to get information on what’s on offer from their ebulletin at www.creativeleicestershire.org.uk
