£165,000 grant to help save King Georgeâs Hall, Darwen Library Theatre and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
King Georges Hall, Blackburn. Picture by Paul Heyes, Thursday August 25, 2016.. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have announced that they have invested £4,501,380 in arts and cultural organisations across Lancashire through the second round of their Culture Recovery Fund distributed by Arts Council England. In Blackburn with Darwen, this means the immediate future of the borough s cultural venues is more secure, after the council received a grant of £165,613 from the fund. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said more than 2,700 cultural organisations and local authorities across the country will receive a share of £400million as part of the vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund.