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Final awards for inspiring communities
Communities across Scotland are celebrating a share of almost £800,000 to connect people through the arts and encourage long-lasting links between people, places and ideas.
The National Lottery-funded Inspiring Communities fund provides more, wider, better participation in the arts, though ambitious projects developed by, and for, the community. It forms part of our Inspire fund to increase participation in the arts through:
• More – increasing the number and range of people enjoying and taking part in the arts, particularly arts activity for and by children and young people,
• Wider – making the arts available to those who have had little opportunity to participate in the past; ensuring a fair geographic spread of activities; and supporting projects across artforms and technologies,
• Better – increasing further the quality of arts activities by supporting creative, ambitious projects.
Iain Munro, Co-Director of Arts congratulated the successful projects and added:
‘Introducing communities new to the arts to meaningful creative experiences has been a central theme of Inspiring Communities, as today’s announcement confirms. Each of the successful projects offers something unique to each community, genuinely rooted in their experience and history and we believe only the start of a lifelong legacy of creative expression and participation.’
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