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135 at risk grassroots music venues have been saved by emergency funding as part of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
First portion of £1.57 billion culture recovery package will go towards saving music venues from insolvency
Valued at £135,000 the exceptional piece is at risk of being lost abroad
Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has stopped the export of two Roman figures of Celtic Hounds .
Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on a 15th century manuscript
Arts Minister Helen Whately has placed an export bar on a set of 18th century scientific drawings valued at £2.5 million
Three works have been gifted to The Hepworth Wakefield
Arts Minister Helen Whately leads call to save £3.5 million work for the nation
Investment will drive local growth, support young people, and reinforce culture’s role at the heart of communities
Monet’s 1908 work ‘Le Palais Ducal’ is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can be found
JMW Turner’s famous work The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne at risk of export
Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has placed a temporary export bar on John Robert Cozens’s watercolour The Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo in a bid to save it for the nation.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has ordered a temporary export bar on the copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by judge during obscenity trial
Four works by Francis Bacon worth £3 million are at risk of being lost abroad
Arts Minister Michael Ellis announces temporary export bar so that a buyer can be found for 16th century casket worth £750,000.
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed a temporary export bar on a 17th century baroque cabinet by Roman maker Giacomo Herman.
Culture Minister steps in to prevent Nainsukh of Guler’s ‘Trumpeters’, valued at £550,000 from export
New report shows more than 700,000 pupils benefiting from whole class instrumental teaching.
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Helen Birchenough as South West Area Chair of Arts Council England for a term of four years starting from 5 December 2018.
Arts Minister Michael Ellis launches £20 million fund for culture, heritage and the creative industries to benefit towns and cities across England.
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