North York Moors Historical Railway Trust to get almost £2m in funding to save historic locomotives

Historic sites and leading cultural organisations, including iconic venues like Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and The Lowry in Salford, will receive help to meet ongoing costs and support to restart activity when it is possible to do so safely.

Venues include North York Moors Historical Railway Trust, which will receive £1,904,902 will help maintain skilled staff and care for the historic locomotives in its collection.

The Academy Music Group, London, which runs the O2 Academy in Leeds, receives £2,981,431 to help meet the core operating costs of 20 leading live music venues across the country.

Over £18m in funding will go to eight arts and cultural organisations around the country in the second round of grants between £1m and £3m awarded by Arts Council England on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

This funding builds on £75m in grants over £1m for iconic venues like Shakespeare’s Globe and the Sheffield Crucible last month.

Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, said: “These grants will help the places that have shaped our skylines for hundreds of years and that continue to define culture in our towns and cities.”

Historic England has allocated £3,971,513 in awards from the Heritage Stimulus Fund, part of a £120m capital investment from the Culture Recovery Fund, to restart construction and maintenance projects facing delays or increased costs as a result of the pandemic and save specialist livelihoods in the sector.

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