‘ Grit’ needed in Tier 3 area
PEOPLE LIVING in South Yorkshire need to show their renowned “grit and character”, the area’s mayor said last night.
Sheffield City Region leader Dan Jarvis’s message came as the area entered new Tier 3 lockdown measures. “We don’t have the luxury of easy choices,” he said. “But I have no doubt this was the right one to make. The alternatives carry far too great a risk of causing more deaths, and ultimately more harm to our economy.”
He added: “That is why I am asking people in South Yorkshire to tap again into the grit and character which have got us through so many difficult times before.”
THERE’S NO business like show business – but there has been nearly no business at all for theatre companies this year.
Leeds Grand and Sheffield’s Crucible are among 35 arts venues and organisations that will receive shares of a further tranche of rescue funding during the coronavirus crisis.
The grants are the largest to have come from the package to date and will be given to organisations that require between £ 1m and £ 3m.
Of the £ 52m being issued, 70 per cent will go to organisations outside London, with £ 7.7m for those in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Also to benefit from the rescue fund are Hull City Council and Leeds Theatre Trust, which operates Leeds Playhouse.
The Sheffield Theatre Trust, which includes the Crucible and the Lyceum, will receive £ 2,246,000 to reopen for a season, with a pop- up pantomime for Christmas.
Sir Nicholas Serota, chairman of Arts Council England, said yesterday: “This latest funding, which involves the largest grants to date, will support some of the country’s most loved and admired cultural spaces”.