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STATEMENT: Birmingham 2022 Cultural Funding
Kashmire Hawker • 28 January 2021
My personal reaction, to some EXTREMELY EXCITING news from my team today!
WOLVERHAMPTON, West Midlands, United Kingdom - 10:25am, Thursday January 28th, 2021
Kashmire Hawker – Member of the West Midlands Young Combined Authority (WMYCA) for the City of Wolverhampton, the YCA’s Co-Portfolio Lead for Transport and Administrator for Ceremonies, Culture and Queens Baton Relay (CCQ), at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, formally responds to the announcement of £6 Million in funding, being secured for Birmingham 2022’s Cultural Programme:
“With today (Thursday January 28th, 2021) marking 18 months until the beginning of Birmingham 2022, it genuinely feels amazing; to have seen my outstanding colleagues round the clock efforts, over the course of 2020 and the start of 2021 spectacularly pay off - with the announcement from the Games Organising Committee (BOCCG), that we have secured £6 MILLION in funding: specifically £3 Million each from Arts Council England (ACE) and the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NHLF), for what is going to be the biggest and diverse Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme EVER!
December 21st, 2017’s announcement, of Brum being confirmed as Hosts of the Games was described by West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, as “our opportunity, to showcase a resurgent, diverse and confident West Midlands to the world”.
And over three years down the line, such a large and extraordinary amount of cash – for a programme, that The Games intend to break the mould with and make the most accessible yet; along it with being a golden opportunity, to help aid the region’s Culture Sector – with what will be a vital recovery post the pandemic, most certainly warrants the use of those words.
Full credit goes to those who I get to call fellow Culture Team members led by the creative genius that is Martin Green CBE – all of whom each day; demonstrate why the offering we are collectively pulling together, will make 2022 one of the most culturally celebrated in our region’s history and leave a legacy, that helps shapes the West Midlands for generations!”
ENDS
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