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<p>The Government is committed to supporting our grassroots music venues, which are
the lifeblood, and research and development centres, of our world-leading music sector.</p><p>The
Department for Culture, Media and Sport is in regular discussions with all parts of
the music industry, including live venues at every level. We work with industry and
across Government to improve the sector's economic resilience to future economic shocks,
as we did through the pandemic, and the recent Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p><p>In
Enfield North specifically, across all artforms and disciplines Arts Council England
have invested £3.426 million in Enfield North since 2018/19 in 61 projects. This includes
9 music specific applications from available funds, such as:</p><ul><li><p>Skanda
Sabbagh who received £10,000 through Developing Your Creative Practice fund to develop
their North African percussion practice, and electronic music artist and rapper Paul
Pitter who received a National Lottery Project Grant award (£23,600) to develop a
new Extended Play (EP);</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>£1.25 million was invested in the
Enfield North Music Education Hub via the Music Hub Investment Programme; and</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Four
Enfield North based projects received Cultural Recovery Fund funding. Three of these
grants were awarded to the local authority (totalling £778,000) with a focus on sustaining
their venues, the Dugdale Centre and Millfield Theatre, which programme a range of
music, amongst other art forms.</p></li></ul><p> </p>
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