Further £17million emergency funding reaches Culture Organisations and Performing Arts Venues
6th August 2021
331 cultural organisations and performing arts venues across Scotland have received a total of £17million in the latest round of emergency Covid-19 funds from the Scottish Government through Creative Scotland.
Eden Court in Inverness awarded £372,604.
From comedy clubs and theatres to galleries and production companies, the second round of the Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund (COVR) is designed to help prevent insolvency and/or significant job losses due to the impact of COVID-19, and the Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund (PAVR) is helping venues to remain solvent, return staff from furlough, and enable new artistic commissions from freelance artists.
Culture Minister Jenny Gilruth said: "I am delighted that this vital funding is reaching the culture sector, which has endured some of the most challenging restrictions over the past 18 months. It's exciting that the sector can now plan for full reopening. The communal experience of being part of an audience cannot be replicated, and it has been sorely missed since the start of the pandemic.
"The move beyond level 0 will allow the sector to reopen fully, but I know that it will take some time to rebuild. This funding will play a key role in stabilising many venues and businesses as the sector begins to recover.
"The Scottish Government has provided almost £175million of emergency support to the culture, heritage and events sector since the start of the pandemic, and I look forward now to working with the sectors to build for the future."
Caroline Morgan, Managing Director at Aberdeen's Tivoli Theatre commented: "This money will mean we can retain our current staff, recruit part time staff, bring our freelance technicians back to work and undertake all necessary requirements to reopen in a safe way at the end of August.
"We're full steam ahead now with testing equipment, organising staff training, first aid training, implementing a new app for ordering and setting up hand-held scanners for ticketing and deep cleaning the building. We'll also be able to support local youth groups who perform with us who have also had a really tough time of it. This funding is a life-line having been closed with no income for 17 months."
Joan Parr, Interim Director of Arts and Engagement said: "Our first priority continues to be supporting the recovery and renewal of Scotland's art and creative sector as Covid-19 restrictions are eased and the sector can open up again more fully.
"Nevertheless, we remain acutely aware of the critical challenges faced by so many cultural organisations, and we know how vital this funding is in continuing to help protect jobs and support the sustainability of a sector that has felt the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic so significantly."
More than 12,000 emergency funding awards totalling over £75million delivered through Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland, reaching people and organisations across Scotland's art and creative sectors since the beginning of the pandemic.
Full list of Perforing Arts Venues Awards
Aberdeen Performing Arts His Majesty's Theatre, Music Hall, Lemon Tree £500,000
Alhambra Theatre Trust Alhambra Theatre £341,828
An Lanntair Ltd An Lanntair £40,000
Angus Alive The Webster (Arbroath), Reid Hall (Forfar) and Montrose Town Hall £22,618
Assembly Festival Ltd Assembly Roxy £85,000
Ayr Gaiety Partnership The Gaiety £390,000
Birnam Arts Centre Birnam Arts £81,717
Brunton Theatre Trust Brunton Theatre £100,000
The Byre Theatre Byre Theatre £117,200
Capital Theatres Festival Theatre and Kings Theatre £500,000
Castlegate Arts Ltd (ACT Aberdeen) Aberdeen Arts Centre £65,000
Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA £109,800
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Mackintosh Queen's Cross £57,500
Citizens Theatre Citizens Theatre £205,000
City of Edinburgh Council Usher Hall £182,445
Comar An Tobar & Mull Theatre £195,560
Dance Base Scotland Dance Base £223,827
Duncan MacKinnon Music and Arts Trust Mac Arts £30,168
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Ltd Dundee Rep £182,396
Dunoon Burgh Hall Trust Dunoon Burgh Hall £109,445
East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Eastwood Park Theatre £85,000
Eastgate Theatre Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre £66,150
Eden Court Highlands Eden Court £372,604
Falkirk Community Trust Falkirk Town Hall £45,832
Fife Cultural Trust Adam Smith Theatre, Lochgelly Centre, Rothes Halls, Carnegie Hall £48,187
Glasgow Life Glasgow Royal Concert Halls/Fruitmarket and City Halls, Kelvingrove Bandstand £349,352
Greenock Arts Guild Ltd Beacon Arts Centre £124,400
Guild of Players Theatre Royal Dumfries £76,742
Horsecross Arts Perth Theatre/Concert Hall £333,700
International Entertainment Holdings Ltd Edinburgh Playhouse, Theatre Royal Glasgow and Kings Theatre Glasgow £350,000
Leith Theatre Trust Leith Theatre £342,800
Linnhe Leisure Ltd t/a Nevis Centre Nevis Centre £34,805
Live Argyll Corran Halls, Victoria Halls, Queens Hall (Dunoon) £134,604
Live Borders Heart of Hawick £42,028
Macrobert Arts Centre Macrobert Arts Centre £191,418
North Lanarkshire Council Motherwell Concert Hall and Theatre £124,558
Pavilion Theatre (Glasgow) Ltd Pavillion Theatre £350,000
Pitlochry Festival Theatre Pitlochry Festival Theatre £485,112
Glasgow East Arts Company Platform £87,000
Queen Margaret Union Queen Margaret Union £25,639
Reconnect Regal Theatre Reconnect Bathgate £65,839
Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre £54,432
Shetland Arts Development Agency Mareel £126,265
St.Margaret's Trust St.Margaret's Trust £34,724
Stirling Council Tolbooth and Albert Halls £47,365
The Buccleuch Centre The Buccleuch Centre £25,120
The Dundee Whitehall Theatre The Dundee Whitehall Theatre £49,000
The Queens Hall The Queens Hall £97,500
Tivoli Theatre Company Ltd Tivoli Theatre £200,000
Traverse Theatre (Scotland) Ltd Traverse Theatre £150,000
Tron Theatre Ltd Tron Theatre £222,124
West Lothian Leisure Howden Park Theatre £133,602
Woodend Arts Ltd The Barn £145,000
Total £8,560,406
PHOTO - Eden Court, Inverness
