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CULTURAL and creative organisations across the region are to receive a share of £400m as part of a vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced details of more than 2,700 organisations being offered millions of pounds in grants and loans to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover from the pandemic Among the recipients is Darlington Hippodrome, which will use its grant to offset losses from cancelled productions, retain jobs, secure the long-term future of the theatre and secure the purchase of new state-of-the-art cinema screening equipment. Heather Tarran-Jones, the Hippodrome’s director of programming and development, said: “We are delighted to receive news of this second Arts Council England grant.
CULTURAL and creative organisations across the region are to receive a share of £400million as part of a vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced details of over 2,700 organisations being offered millions of pounds in grants and loans to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover from the pandemic Among the recipients is Darlington Hippodrome, which will use its grant to offset losses from cancelled productions, retain jobs, secure the long-term future of the theatre and secure the purchase of new state-of-the-art cinema screening equipment. Heather Tarran-Jones, the Hippodrome’s director of programming and development, said: “We are delighted to receive news of this second Arts Council England grant.
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By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article.
Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church organs in the town, and spent much of the time made available to him on the instrument of the Gargrave Road Methodist Church to which WRM refers.