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# The Old Market receives funding as part of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/the-old-market-receives-funding-as-part-of-the-governments-culture-recovery-fund/
- Published: 2020-10-13T11:15:24.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-13T08:48:43.000Z
- Description: Brighton venue The Old Market receives funding as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and ensure they have a sustainable future.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Community, In The South, Information, News, Theatre, Arts Council England, Brighton & Hove, Culture, Culture Recovery Fund, The Old Market

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Brighton & Hove venue **The Old Market** has successfully received funding as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion **Culture Recovery Fund** (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and ensure they have a sustainable future.

The Old Market, also known as TOM, is one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations aross the country receiving urgently needed support. £257 million of investment has been announced as part of the very first round of the CRF grants programme being administered by **Arts Council England**. Further rounds of funding in the cultural and heritage sector are due to be announced over the coming weeks.

**Loretta Sacco**, director of The Old Market, said: *“We would like to offer a huge thank you to everyone involved with awarding this grant for TOM.*

*“With this funding, we can now continue to provide for our local community, the city that we love and for the culture sector as a whole, delivering an innovative and bold programme for audiences, whilst also offering opportunities for artists, performers and freelancers.”*

TOM is an independent, high quality live theatre which aims to encourage the presentation and production of performance arts, by handpicking shows.

For more info on TOM, [click here](http://www.theoldmarket.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk).