Hundreds of arts, heritage and cultural organisations across England have received a share of £107 million from the government as part of an ongoing covid recovery scheme – with just under £32 million being allocated to London organisations.
There are 266 London organisations receiving funding, broken down by artistic genre as follows:
| Combined Arts | £3,916,001 |
| Dance | £2.238.641 |
| Film | £105,500 |
| Libraries | £300,000 |
| Literature | £847,761 |
| Museums | £788,906 |
| Music | £8,491,203 |
| No discipline | £4,130,131 |
| Other | £12,122 |
| Theatre | £9,335,496 |
| Visual Arts | £1,657,157 |
Of London’s museums, five received funding in the current round.
The London Transport Museum was granted £450,000, the London Museum of Water and Steam got £58,845, the Gunnersbury Park Museum received £187,795, the Jewish Museum received £36,266 and the Brunel Museum was granted £56,000.
Sam Mullins OBE, Director of London Transport Museum, said: ” As we plan for the year ahead, this new Culture Recovery Fund grant is supporting a truly sustainable recovery. It will see us continue to re-build after the devastating impact of the pandemic and invest in new programming. When cultural attractions reopened earlier this year it signalled brighter times ahead. Their ongoing recovery is critical to our towns and city centres, as well as the wider UK economy and the country’s wellbeing.”
The full list of grants and venues is on this spreadsheet.
Broken down by council
| Barking and Dagenham | £74,042 |
| Barnet | £418,755 |
| Brent | £856,831 |
| Bromley | £100,000 |
| Camden | £4,114,905 |
| City of London | £715,057 |
| Croydon | £195,280 |
| Ealing | £114,645 |
| Enfield | £180,000 |
| Greenwich | £1,634,390 |
| Hackney | £2,246,751 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £952,564 |
| Haringey | £518,793 |
| Harrow | £535,336 |
| Havering | £169,471 |
| Hillingdon | £101,370 |
| Hounslow | £393,078 |
| Islington | £3,704,616 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | £1,100,355 |
| Kingston upon Thames | £311,051 |
| Lambeth | £2,909,906 |
| Lewisham | £511,138 |
| Merton | £26,000 |
| Newham | £530,007 |
| Redbridge | £174,788 |
| Richmond upon Thames | £230,314 |
| Southwark | £1,301,693 |
| Tower Hamlets | £2,231,086 |
| Waltham Forest | £611,402 |
| Wandsworth | £677,322 |
| Westminster | £3,805,248 |
Did Sutton get missed out on the spreadsheet, or does the council not have an Arts budget anyhow? Neither would surprise me!
You can check the spreadsheet as I linked to it in the article, and the funding is nothing to do with the council itself, the money goes to private organisations.
How lovely to see that one of my local museums, the Gunnersbury Park Museum, got a nice chunk of funding in this round. It is truly a local gem in a beautiful old mansion in the middle of Gunnersbury Park, covering ways of living, industry, people and more. It is so beautifully done and it is FREE!