Thu 21st May 2020
by Creative Quarter
Managing Director of the Nottingham-based company Mellors Group Events will join representatives from the arts, cultural and sporting worlds to help get the country’s recreation and leisure sector up and running again.
Invest NewsEdward Mellors has been announced as a member of the new Cultural Renewal Taskforce, which will be chaired by Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
Edward Mellors, Managing Director of The Mellors Group
As Managing director of Mellors Group Events alongside his brother and father, Edward has been responsible for running some of the biggest outdoor events in Nottingham and across the world, including our own Goose Fair and the Beach in the Market Square. Joining Mellors on the task force will be:
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said:
“We are determined to do all we can to help our sectors that are such an incredible part of British life in their recovery. The Taskforce is made up of some of the brightest and best from the cultural, sporting and tech worlds. Experts in their fields, they’ll be instrumental in identifying creative ways to get these sectors up and running again.”
The taskforce is one of five new ministerial-led taskforces which have been set up to develop blueprints for how and when closed businesses and venues can reopen safely will be crucial to the reopening of sectors of Britain’s economy. They will support the renewal of DCMS sectors and help develop new COVID-19 secure guidelines for the reopening of public places and businesses, where and when it is safe to do so. The focus of the groups’ work will be on:
As the nation’s economy begins to move towards recovery and regeneration, the Taskforce will look to see how creative new approaches could help sectors thrive in future, building on existing channels of government support (like the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme, Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grants, a 12 month business rates holiday, and £200 million of emergency public funding through the Arts Council, Historic England and National Lottery Heritage Fund).
The first meeting of the Cultural Renewal Taskforce will take place this Friday 22 May, and will meet on a weekly basis. The work of the taskforce will be supported by eight working groups chaired by DCMS Ministers, which will include representatives from key sector bodies and organisations and focused on areas like sport, entertainment and events, museums and galleries, heritage, tourism and libraries.
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