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Barrow arts centre awarded £650,000
A derelict Victorian building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, is set to be transformed into a new community arts centre after the scheme received a £650,000 cash injection from the Big Lottery Fund.
Creative Studios Cumbria has been awarded the grant through the government's Community Assets programme, which is funded by the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office and will pay for the extensive renovation of the Grade II-listed building. The new centre will include a creative IT suite, a digital filmmaking studio, a workshop, rehearsal and exhibition space and a café, as well as facilities for new creative, social enterprises to be housed.
Kerry Kolbe, director at Creative Studios Cumbria, said: "The council had already secured heritage funding specifically to do up the old buildings on Abbey Road - we've worked so hard together for so long producing plans and paperwork that we're relieved now but also of course excited that the project finally has the green light. "We've been working closely with the hundreds of people we run activities with, other creative organisations and with the Canteen to decide how a new creative building will best serve to fill the gaps in accommodating what's already happening and the best ways to develop Barrow's creative offer."
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