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18 Jul 2013
Culture Programme ahead of 2014 Commonwealth Games
The countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is to be marked by a 12-month cultural programme one year before the games kick-off. Culture 2014, which begins later this month, will see theatre, dance, music and comedy events held around Scotland in celebration of the Games. The 2014 cultural programme is a collaboration between the games' organising committee, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Life. Also running alongside the event will be Festival
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17 Jul 2013
Aspen Museum raises US$65m ahead of move
Aspen Museum, in Colorado, US, has raised US$58m (£38.1m, €44m) as part of a US$65m (£42.7m, €49.4m) fundraising campaign to move into a much larger facility. Construction on the new 33,000sq ft (3,065sq m) building, designed by award-winning
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17 Jul 2013
Nine Scottish heritage projects receive MGS funding
Nine heritage and arts projects have received a total of £300,000 worth of grants from Museums Galleries Scotland's new Strategic Investment Fund. The individual grants range from £17,000 to £40,000 and include £22,654 for Caithness Horizons in order to develop an early medieval sculpture exhibition while
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16 Jul 2013
£20m children’s ‘mini city’ for Shepherd’s Bush
A new ‘reality theme park’ where children take jobs and earn ‘money’ is to be launched at Westfield London shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush London. The new entertainment and education centre to be named KidZania – complete with streets and
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16 Jul 2013
Crawley Museum move costs increase by GBP500,000 to GBP2.35m
The predicted cost of a move and refurbishment of Crawley Museum has increased by more than £500,000 from original estimates. The Crawley Museum Society, in partnership with Crawley Borough Council, was initially given the green light by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in 2011. At the time a £113,500 grant and a first-round pass to go towards the relocation and development of the museum from Goffs Park House to the Grade
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16 Jul 2013
National Lottery Awards shortlist revealed
The National Lottery Good Causes has revealed a list of 49 projects that will compete in this year's National Lottery Awards. Over 900 lottery-funded programmes had entered this year's awards with a panel of judges coming up with a short-list of 49 split over seven categories reflecting the different areas that receive National Lottery Funding: arts, sport, heritage, health, environment, education and voluntary/charity. The winners will now be decided by public vote with
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15 Jul 2013
£3m centre for Dudley Zoo unveiled
Dudley Zoo has revealed design plans of the proposed Trilobite building – a futuristic education and conference centre with a nod to the site’s ancient history. The new building, which is being designed to recreate the famous Dudley Bug fossil shape, would be built on the site of Dudley Hippodrome, in Castle
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15 Jul 2013
Business tourism worth GBP1.9bn to Scottish economy
Scotland’s business tourism industry is worth more than £1.9bn to the country’s economy, according to a new report. Commissioned by the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Foundation, the UK Economic Impact Study (UKEIS) is regarded as the
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15 Jul 2013
Government urged to create music tourism strategy
A cross party group of influential peers has called on Government to develop a new strategy to support music-based tourism and help grow the UK economy. The call was made during a House of Lords debate on the impact of music on tourism. The debate’s sponsor LibDem Lord Storey said music festivals have been attracting unprecedented numbers of overseas visitors and have been pouring money into local economies. Storey
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15 Jul 2013
Heritage tourism generates £26.4bn to UK economy
Heritage-based tourism is worth £26.4bn to the UK economy - £5.8bn higher than the previous estimate published in 2010 according to recent research from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The new report also suggests that heritage is playing an
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15 Jul 2013
London hits record numbers for tourism
Visits from overseas tourists to London have hit record numbers, according to the latest International Passenger Survey (IPS) figures. During the first quarter of 2013, 3.4m tourists came to London, a 4.2 per cent boost on the same period in 2012. Expenditure over the same period saw a significant increase -
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12 Jul 2013
Scottish tourism sees visitor-spending increase
While visitors to Scotland have decreased over the past year, spending has seen a sharp increase, according to official figures. According to the Office of National Statistics, spending by overseas visitors was up by 22 per cent while visitor
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12 Jul 2013
Trust looking for £900,000 museum investment
The Greenfield Valley Trust (GVT) has been awarded £60,000 and a 'first round pass' to finalise plans before submitting a bid for £900,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to finance a proposed museum. The trust is planning to open a centre themed around the Greenfield Valley Heritage Park, near Holywell in north Wales. At present, a small farm museum stands on the site with the ruins of a mill and an abbey. GVT is
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11 Jul 2013
Government launches Cultural Destinations fund
The government has launched a new funding initiative aimed at boosting cultural tourism in England. The new Cultural Destinations scheme will offer grants between £250,000 and £350,000 to projects that look to develop cultural offerings and attract tourism on a local level. Arts Council England (ACE) is
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