MORE than £10 million has been granted to venues and creative organisations in the second round of "invaluable" government funding to support the arts' recovery amid Covid-19.
A total of £10,313,072 has been awarded to 82 organisations in Brighton and Hove and East Sussex from the Culture Recovery Fund.
The Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust received £370,000, while Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival received £470,500 and Brighton Pride was granted £264,370.
Venues including the Hope and Ruin, the Old Market and Concorde 2 also benefited from the fund, as well as the Volk's bar and nightclub, the Pipeline and Komedia.
They were among more than 2,700 organisations nationally to receive nearly £400 million in grants and loans to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover.
The second tranche of funding comes after grants were awarded last year to support the survival of 3,800 cultural organisations and heritage sites across the country.
The latest grants will support museums, theatres, performance venues, historic sites and cinemas as they reopen to audiences and visitors throughout the spring and summer.
Paul Musselwhite, managing director at Komedia, said he was "delighted and relieved" the venue has been awarded £123,500.
He said: "Venues like us up and down the country have had the most difficult year and we still face a long road to recovery.
"This support will help us to return safely whilst providing a much-needed cultural offering for our great city."
Comedian Romesh Ranganathan said the funding for Komedia was "great news" for the city.
He said: "It means that it can continue to be the hub for both established comedy as well as nurturing new talent."
Andrew Comben, chief executive of Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival, described the funding as "invaluable" as this year's festival is set to go ahead in May.
He said: "Since last year’s cancellation and with the continued closure of Brighton Dome, it’s been hard to imagine that we’d be able to look forward to this moment.
“This funding will allow us to support our music services as students return to lessons in person and to present a festival that works with local artists, community organisations and a range of creative professionals who are all committed to and excited about coming back.
"We are enormously proud to be in a city that believes in the value of the arts, both economically and socially, and to have such loyal audiences who we know want the arts to thrive and survive beyond the pandemic.”
The funding has been welcomed by actors and arts patrons Dame Judi Dench, Dame Julie Walters, Stephen Fry and Hugh Bonneville.
Here is the full list of organisations which received funding in Brighton, Hove and East Sussex:
Brighton and Hove
13 Artists Ltd - £390,863
201 Dance Company - £26,495
Andi Watson Design Ltd - £91,690
ARA Productions Ltd - £41,324
Brighton Dome and Festival Limited - £470,500
Brighton Early Music Festival - £50,346
Brighton Fringe Ltd - £143,891
Brighton Marina Studios - £35,435
Brighton Pride - £264,370
C3 Productions - £79,786
Concorde2 Limited - £115,000
Creative Future Ltd - £29,759
Culture24 - £101,235
E3 Production Ltd - £60,000
Extraordinary Expeditions Limited - £251,470
Fabrica - £62,157
Fat Poppadaddys Ltd - £79,275
FMLY Agency Ltd - £94,113
Ground Up Media Ltd - £34,218
Hope and Ruin - £10,637
Jamm Hot Ltd - £150,000
Komedia Ltd - £123,500
Latest Bars Ltd - £49,259
Library Productions Ltd - £26,000
Little Green Pig - £28,162
Long Nose Puppets Ltd - £15,400
LOOKOUT Brighton CIC - £34,173
Lout Events Ltd - £78,853
Marlborough Theatre Productions Ltd - £38,000
Mckeown Events Ltd - £92,644
Melanie Brown Impressive PR Limited - £30,310
Murmuration Arts Production CIC - £37,000
New Writing South - £73,100
Nick Barnes Puppets - £27,990
ONCA Trust Ltd - £37,000
Ooosh Tours Ltd - £29,347
Otherplace Productions Ltd - £152,451
Paramount Artists Limited - £286,747
Phoenix Brighton - £57,780
Polly Barker Productions Ltd - £25,167
Puppets with GUTS - £27,222
Renegade Lighting Design - £295,774
Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust - £370,000
Select Security and Stewarding Ltd - £156,316
Smart Power Ltd - £90,606
Spymonkey - £68,871
St James Events Ltd - £54,715
The Albert Ltd - £160,000
The Brighton and Hove Studio LTD - £52,873
The Dream Engine International Ltd - £89,894
The Old Market - £179,888
The Pipeline - £25,500
Vervacity Ltd - £159,200
Volk's Bar and Club - £218,750
Whiskey Bravo Productions Ltd - £46,000
Windmill Young Actors CIC - £26,069
Eastbourne
Devonshire Collective - £33,702
Eastbourne Borough Council - £1,871,262
Tempest Property Holdings Ltd - £183,196
The Royal Hippodrome Theatre - £93,457
Towner Art Gallery - £70,250
Hastings
Barefoot Opera - £37,397
Hastings Contemporary - £209,000
Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition - £71,060
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery - £225,515
Home Live Art - £26,570
MSL Projects - £60,000
Project Art Works - £183,500
Soundcastle - £32,040
St Mary in the Castle - £44,239
Sweet and Dandy - £29,920
Lewes
Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft - £49,000
So Sussex - £10,000
Rother
18 Hours Ltd - £36,485
De La Warr Pavilion - £325,000
Wealden
Farleys House and Gallery Ltd - £85,000
Feral Peacock Ltd - £240,600
Frontier Fireworks Limited - £74,531
Lost Dog Dance - £34,841
Nomad Trading (into the Wild arts festival) - £46,500
Sussex Events Ltd - £25,228
The Charleston Trust (Bloomsbury in Sussex) - £367,654
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