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Thu, 20 Jan 2022
A special anniversary fund to award an additional £40,000 of grants for Manx culture during 2022 has been set up by Culture Vannin.
The local charity, based in St Johns, is celebrating 40 years of the Manx Heritage Foundation Act, that founded the charity that is known as Culture Vannin today.
Chair of Culture Vannin, Chris Thomas MHK said “As Culture Vannin celebrates 40 years since its founding legislation was drafted, we are delighted to offer a one-off scheme of grants relating to the culture and cultural heritage of the Isle of Man and its people.”
Applicants can apply for a grant of either £2,500 or £5,000 for a project relating to archaeology, industrial development, architecture. arts and crafts, history and law, language and literature, music, folklore and folk dance, natural history and ecology
Dr Breesha Maddrell, Director of Culture Vannin, said “Projects which embrace innovation and change will be given priority - this could be to cover the development of a special body of work, or a new way of sharing and promoting existing materials. There should be some element of online delivery to ensure accessibility. We are particularly interested in projects that use collections or archives as an inspiration, and those which bring the past, present or future into dialogue.”
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