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<p>Regional sites will benefit considerably from this £60 million investment in our
national cultural infrastructure, irrespective of where their headquarters happen
to be located. Of the 100 projects this Fund will support, over a third are based
wholly outside London and the South East. For historic reasons there is a cluster
of older, more expansive estates in London that require particular care and attention,
but this is not at the expense of other regions, with projects funded across the North
West, South West, North East, Yorkshire, and others. In fact, every single one of
the multi-site organisations has received funding for one or more of its regional
sites.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Regional organisations have been further boosted
by our Museums Estates and Development Fund (MEND) worth over £18 million, available
exclusively to non-national accredited museums for maintenance projects. Throughout
the pandemic, this Government has supported locally-accessible culture and heritage
across the entire nation, with 70 per cent of awards from our £2 billion Culture Recovery
Fund to date going to save thousands of organisations outside of London.</p><p> </p>
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