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Tate Liverpool
access project shortlisted for national award
AN art gallery in Liverpool
has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award at the 2013
Biffa Awards, a ceremony which recognises the people who transform
their communities and improve the environment through Biffa Award
funded projects.
Tate Liverpool will now compete against three other organisations
from across the country for the chance to be named winner of the
'Cultural Facilities' category, and receive a £2,000 prize.
The Improving Access to Tate Liverpool project originally received
£47,300 in funding from Biffa Award to improve and refurbish the
learning suite in order to ensure greater access to and education in
modern art.
With the project completing in the last financial year, it was
invited to enter this year's Biffa Awards in the Cultural Facilities
category.
Competition was fierce, with more than 240 projects eligible to
enter the Awards under five different categories: Community
Buildings, Cultural Facilities, Rebuilding Biodiversity, Recreation
and Small Grants.
The Biffa Awards ceremony 2013 will be held on September 24 at
ThinkTank Birmingham Science Museum, where the winners will be
announced. Category winners will each receive a trophy and prize
money of £2,000, which can be used to further develop their project.
Each winner then has the chance of being crowned the Overall Winner
for 2013, receiving a further £1,000 prize.
Gillian French, Biffa Award Programme Manager, said:- "Every
year Biffa Award organises a special celebration to recognise and
reward the people behind the outstanding projects we fund. All of
our projects are run by people who work hard to bring communities
together and make a lasting difference to their local areas and the
environment, so to be shortlisted for an Award is a tremendous
achievement. Our judges have a difficult but exciting task ahead in
choosing the winners."
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