Dorset Council is to pay more than £120,000 towards keeping touring arts alive in rural communities.


The council has committed the money to Artsreach, which tours a variety of performances around rural areas.
The cash has been awarded from the Organisational Revenue Support Fund, and amounts to £41,947 for each of the next three years.

Artsreach co-director Yvonne Gallimore said: “The continued support of Dorset Council is invaluable in enabling us continue to programme our much-loved variety of quality live performances, reaching out to the heart of rural communities across the county. Our volunteer promoters work tirelessly to make these events happen all year round, and this funding recognises both the work they do, and the quality of the work Artsreach tours, and has toured over the last 30 years.”

Since 1990 Artsreach has been dedicated to providing people living in rural Dorset with access to professional live performances and creative arts projects in rural venues and communities, at affordable and accessible prices. Its performance programme runs through a network of roughly 50 volunteer promoting groups and together the scheme coordinates around 150 high quality professional events every year, usually in village halls and often in rurally isolated communities right across rural Dorset.

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