Northern Culture APPG’s Case for Culture: What Northern Culture needs to Rebuild, Rebalance and Recover

Image of the front cover of Case for Culture

The Northern Culture All Party Parliamentary Group’s report, The Case for Culture: What Northern Culture needs to Rebuild, Rebalance and Recover, addresses levelling up northern cultural infrastructure, increasing access to culture in the north, getting northern culture back on track and sets out a 10 point plan to level up northern culture.

The report can be seen here.

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