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Our Investment

Our Investment

Across the North West, Yorkshire and the North East we are supporting 281 National Portfolio Organisations between 2023-26 with total investment of over £382 million.

We also invest in artists and arts and culture organisations through a range of other funding programmes including National Lottery Project Grants and Developing Your Creative Practice.

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Get in touch

Find out how to get in touch with us

Studio Wayne McGregor & students from Weston College perform a dance response to Luke Jerram’s In Memoriam
Photo by Studio Wayne McGregor & students from Weston College perform a dance response to Luke Jerram’s In Memoriam. Image © Finnbarr Webster
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Find out who to contact with national press and media enquiries

A dancer on his knees looks at the floor, while another dancer moves around him, a flowing red cloth blowing in the air within his grasp.
Photo by Shailesh Bahoran and Sooraj Subramaniam of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance perform Material Men, commissioned by Southbank Centre. Photo © Chris Nash.
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Join the conversation with @ace_thenorth

An overhead image of a crowd in a town square around a procession of a large sculpture.
Photo by Giant Spectacular: Liverpool's Dream. Photo © Liverpool City Council/Culture Liverpool
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Our funding in action

Find out more about how the wonderful work achieved at Henshaws is a striking example of the difference that the National Lottery can make.

Blossom Entrance of Henshaws Arts and Craft Centre with metal entrance sign.
Photo by Blossom Entrance, New Path in Gardens. Photographer: Gwen Jones. Image Credit: Henshaws
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Our Director for Northern Economy and Partnerships, Pete Massey, blogs about the important role culture and creativity has to play in the North of England.

Image of people taking place in the Manchester day Parade as part of Manchester day in 2016
Photo by Manchester Day 2016, Walk the Plank and Manchester City Council. Photographer: Chris Payne Image Credit: Walk the Plank and Manchester City Council.
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Reading together can build trust and strengthen family bonds - but what happens when a parent is in prison?

Close-up of books at The Book Hive, Norwich.
Photo by The Book Hive. Photo © Rusty Squid
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A giant farewell

21 December 2018

For the past ten years the people of Liverpool and Wirral have been visited by some pretty big guests.

Giant sleeping on the sand
Photo by Giant Spectacular Liverpool's Dream. Photo. Mark McNulty
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Priority Places

Priority Places

As part of our plan for achieving Let’s Create, we’ve identified a number of places across England with low investment and engagement which we’re prioritising working with from 2021 to 2024; including 15 places in the North.