WE HAVE, in recent weeks, announced details of almost 3,000 organisations being offered grants and loans to help the culture/heritage sector reopen and recover from Covid. As a member of the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, I have taken a very close interest in the Culture Recovery Fund (worth some £1.57 billion of public money) but as our constituency MP, I’ve watched it like a hawk. Last year our area did well from the fund and I know many of our most valued institutions received lifeline financial support. It was well covered at the time in this newspaper of course.