The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Arts programme Transported has received £700,000 funding to continue for another three years.
More than 60,000 people have engaged with community-focused programme launched in 2013.
Transported’s aim is to remove the barriers that prevent participation, especially in rural communities, by finding creative ways to transport “purposeful” arts to where people come together, such as market places, food factory canteens, the school gate or village greens.
Feedback from artist-led consultation, taster activities and performances shapes the wider arts programme.
One of Transported’s highest profile projects in South Holland was ten lorry trailers belonging to Pinchbeck haulier FreshLinc being wrapped with artwork reflecting the district,
Transported says the new grant will enable it to continue on the “creative journeys” started in South Holland and Boston Borough.
The extra funding follows news earlier this year that Arts Council England was investing further in Creative People and Places, the national programme funded by National Lottery money.
Transported programme director Nick Jones said: “We are delighted that Creative People and Places will enable us to carry on important and exciting work in South East Lincolnshire.
“Our work with private sector companies, including art on lorries, has been an inspiration to us and them at the potential value arts can offer the private sector.
“Transported has allowed thousands of residents to have a go or enjoy great art locally, and we will now focus on work with them to enable them to carry on.”
