Summer thrown an £8.8m Government lifeline
MORE than 60 heritage railways and tramways, museums, and other venues with a significant railway presence have been handed £8,844,000 in grant aid to back their spring reopening and fund post-lockdown operating costs until June.
Grants in round two of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) Culture Recovery Fund For Heritage (CRF) grants, made through either the Arts Council or the National Lottery Heritage Fund/Historic England, were revealed on April 2.
Overall, almost £400 million in grants and loans have been given to more than 2,700 organisations, said Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, aimed at helping them survive after suffering huge financial losses during 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Among the biggest winners this time are the Great Central, North Yorkshire Moors, Nene Valley, Keighley & Worth Valley, North Norfolk, Bluebell, Churnet Valley and South Devon railways, London Transport Museum, and Beamish: The North of England Open Air Museum.
