The threatened Sayle art gallery has won funding from the Department of Education and Children.

The department has agreed to pay for an additional six months rent, via the Arts Council, from March next year, when the previously agreed funding for rent ends. The department will also pay fifty per cent of the costs of employing an artist in residence for 2016.

Education Minister Tim Crookall said: 'I am happy we have been able to agree a way forward in the short term. The Arts Council never withdrew funding in totality and it is important that we are assured the Sayle Gallery will use this extra period of funding to find a suitable strategy for future funding.'

The rent from April to September 2016 is ?14,000 and it costs ?5,000 to fund fifty per cent of an artist in residence.


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