Dumfries and Galloway’s cultural sector has received a £2 million boost.
Five organisations are set to receive funding from Creative Scotland over the next three years.
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, the Thornhill-based Cample Line and The Glenkens Community and Arts Trust are all receiving multi-year backing for the first time.
And Creative Scotland is also continuing its support of The Stove Network in Dumfries and The Wigtown Festival Company.
They are among more than 250 organisations to receive support worth more than £200 million from Creative Scotland, thanks to an increase in funding from the Scottish Government.
Creative Scotland chairman, Robert Wilson, said: “This is an extremely positive moment for culture in Scotland, bringing with it a renewed sense of stability and certainty to Scotland’s culture sector.
“Thanks to the vote of confidence in the culture sector, demonstrated by the recently announced budget from the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland can offer stable, year-on-year funding to more organisations than ever before.
“I’m particularly pleased that this funding will increase further from next year, enabling even more fantastic artistic and creative work to be developed here in Scotland.
“Stable, long-term funding for as many organisations as possible is the underlying principle of the multi-year funding programme, and we are delighted to be able to bring it to fruition.
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“This funding means that we are able to bring so many new, community focused organisations into the portfolio, while also providing significant increases to those more established organisations which have been on standstill, regular funding for so many years.”
The biggest funding award is to The Stove Network, which will receive £587,500 over the next three years.
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival will receive £545, 380 with The Wigtown Festival Company allocated £388,900.
The Glenkens Community and Arts Trust – based at the CatStrand in New Galloway – is to receive £359,088.
And Cample Line will be granted £219,891.