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Buxton to receive £100k heritage grant

Buxton town centre. Credit: Derby and Derbyshire Economic Partnership and Derbyshire County Council.

Buxton has been awarded £100,000 for a programme of community-led cultural activities centred around Spring Gardens.

It's part of the four-year-long High Streets Heritage Action Zones’ Cultural Programme, led by Historic England, in partnership with Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Cultural Programme aims to make high streets more attractive, engaging, and vibrant places for people to live, work and spend time.

Buxton is one of over 60 High Street Heritage Action Zones (HSHAZ) which will receive grants totalling £6 million for local arts organisations to create and deliver community-led cultural activities on their high streets over the next three years. 

The funding builds on the success of a series of pilot cultural projects that have run since last August across the High Streets Heritage Action Zones, which have not only helped high streets offer cultural activity during lockdown, but also test what local people would like to see happening on their high streets.

The news comes after last week’s confirmation that the £10 million regeneration of Buxton town centre has received the green light.

High Peak MP Robert Largan commented: “I am really pleased that Buxton high street is getting this boost from Historic England. Along with the £10million planned regeneration of the town centre, this is yet another positive story for Buxton that will help our high street and create more jobs. I will keep working hard to make Buxton even better!”

Eilis Scott, acting Regional Director of Historic England Midlands, said: “The high street cultural programme is a step change in the way we think about bringing high streets back from the brink in the Midlands. As we start to see these important historic spaces become regenerated through building work, it is the community-led cultural work that helps people to enjoy their high street again and also have a say in what the future of their high street might be.”

Ros Kerslake, Chief Executive of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: “Our high streets are invaluable community hubs that bring people together. We are excited that our £3 million of National Lottery funding will kickstart creative activities that will capture the heritage and spirit of our ever-changing high streets, as they recover from the COVID-19 crisis.”

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