NEWS: Manchester Camerata receives much welcomed funding from government's Culture Recovery Grant.

 
Manchester Camerata is delighted to announce that it has today – Tuesday October 13th - welcomed a much needed award of £229k from the Government’s Department of Digital Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). This ACE Culture Recovery Funding is a vital lifeline for the organisation – offering critical support during what has been a very challenging year.

Like so many national arts and cultural organisations, Manchester Camerata has been greatly and financially affected as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic. This vital financial aid – as part of the DCMS’s #HereforCulture campaign - will make an enormous difference to our survival and our recovery.

It will help us to creatively engage in different ways whilst restrictions to live performances remain in place. Thanks to these grants and additional long-term donations we can continue the production of brand new digital and online work to help us make profound impact for and with our communities during the pandemic, and get our freelance musicians and artists back into employment.

This funding will also help us to continue the ground-breaking work we deliver with people living with dementia through our longstanding ‘Music in Mind’ programme. Through this grant, and additional funding we are also grateful to have received through the Government’s Innovate UK Scheme, we are able to develop and launch a digital version of our dementia programme where our musicians can teach carers remotely on how to deliver the music programme directly within their own care homes.

CEO Bob Riley Comments: “We are so grateful to have received funding as part of the Government's Culture Recovery Fund today. We will be using this funding to achieve high impact for and with our communities and freelance artists. Without this vital grant, we, like so many of our fellow artists and cultural organisations would not survive another year. More must be done to support the arts sector through these challenging months. But we welcome and recognise the huge difference to the organisation that this grant will make at this time.”