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Northern Ireland Office

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Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what (a) programmes and (b) projects have been supported by the Cultural Diversity Branch in each year since it was set up. [123801] Angela Smith: The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in pursuing its vision of "a confident, creative, informed and prosperous society" is committed both to promoting a greater respect and understanding of the richness of our cultural and linguistic diversity and to celebrating this diversity. In progressing this objective the Department supported Diversity 21 as a means of examining cultural diversity with a view to promoting deeper understanding and to represent this diversity as a sign of strength in our society. Diversity 21 provided the means of promoting cultural diversity work already happening; identifying and delivery of new projects aimed at stimulating the imagination and exploring diversity in an open, creative and accessible way; and providing a cultural diversity grant funding scheme. Since April 2001 the Department has supported a schedule of exhibitions on language, faith and history in Northern Ireland and the wider Commonwealth, to a number of organisations and community groups throughout the Province; a programme of workshops on the different drums of Northern Ireland; and Intercom 21--a contemporary music project which used music as a means of exploring diversity. In addition the Department under the Diversity 21 funding programme supported a range of community based projects. These included: Cultural Diversity Grants 2001-02 £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Group Project Total Funding Apprentice Boys of Derry Maiden City Festival 2001 50,000 Football in the Community Football course with underachievers 35,000 Young at Art Family friendly day 5,000 East Tyrone Marshalling training 5,000 Tinderbox No place like home 38,162 Cineversity Cinema and the city 6,000 The Gathering Literary festival 13,000 Lisburn Development Organisation Chinese New Year festival 9,000 Down Community Arts Neighbours 830 Queen's Film Theatre `Crossing barriers through the moving 3,820 image' Old Museum Arts `I'm not a racist but . . ' 5,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Cultural Diversity Grants 2002-03 £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Group Project Total Funding Armagh City and District Council Music of the world 7,350 BDS Community Association Ballynahinch youth together 19,300 Best Cellars Music Collective East meets west 2,910 Oi-Kwan Womens Group Chinese cultural awareness weeks 1,500 Replay Productions The Millies 13,347 Spamount and District Cross Community Spamount community festival 1,500 Travellers Movement Anti-discrimination and cultural awareness 934 The Cathedral Quarter Arts Cathedral Quarter Arts festival 4,500 The Nerve Centre Diversity in the digital age 9,000 Apprentice Boys Maiden City festival 2002 50,000 Football in the Community Football course with underachievers 4,300 Tinderbox Caught red handed 37,702 Young at Art Musical garden and festival 20,020 Ballynafeigh Community Development Peace boat project 6,107 Association _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

123801; 408 c948-50W;408 c946-8W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Community development Culture Finance Ethnic groups Northern Ireland Race relations

Contains statistics

Yes

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