North Coast Trad and Stendhal Festival among Causeway Coast recipients of rural arts funding
Arts groups from the Causeway Coast & Glens area are to receive funding from a rural arts National Lottery scheme.
They will benefit from the fifth round of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s National Lottery Rural Engagement Arts Programme (REAP), with an investment of £460,000.
Organisations in the Causeway Coast & Glens area set to receive funding include Armstrong Storytelling Trust from the Glens of Antrim, Limavady’s ArtAbyss Limited, Enterprise Causeway, Live Music Now, North Coast Trad, and Stendhal Festival.
Live Music Now is set to receive £9,992 towards their project Together in Harmony: Connecting Rural Communities through Music and Memory. This funding will support a new collaboration involving Live Music Now NI, Thackeray Day Centre in Limavady, and The Glens Community Association through the DRIVE Project.
The National Lottery Rural Engagement Arts Programme was established in 2022 with the aim of providing an integrated, cohesive approach to the needs of rural communities as they emerged from the global Covid-19 pandemic.