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Brighton Dome and Worthing Borough Council will share in the £130 million national cultural fund, which is being delivered by Arts Council England to help improve accessibility to arts and culture and provide welcoming and affordable spaces for local communities to visit. The Brighton arts venue will receive £468,701, while the council has been awarded £371,278.
The Indian government has announced the Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0, with a total corpus of Rs 10,000 crore, to mobilize venture and growth capital for the country’s startup ecosystem. The fund will have an expanded scope, with the corpus divided into four segments, including dedicated support for deep-tech and manufacturing startups, according to
The Wealth Company Mutual Fund, part of Pantomath Group, has announced the launch of a specialised investment fund (SIF) named ‘WSIF’, marking its entry into a relatively new category within India’s mutual fund landscape. The new fund offer (NFO) will open on April 15 and close on April 29. The fund will offer two strategies:
The grants will be delivered by Arts Council England on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough was awarded the highest grant in the region, with £2.7m to be spent on essential repairs and upgrades to The McCarthy studio theatre and cinema. The government said it would
Adrian Musgrave, Abbey Deane (Bridgnorth Aluminium) and Sonia Roberts (Shropshire Community Foundation) | Picture: Bridgnorth Aluminium Charities and community organisations tackling rural isolation across Shropshire are to share a £15,000 grant fund launched by the UK’s last surviving aluminium rolling mill. The Bridgnorth Aluminium Community Fund will award grants of up to £5,000 to voluntary
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