{"id":150218,"date":"2025-09-17T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150218\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:23:10","slug":"woking-art-gallery-avoids-closure-with-new-funding-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150218\/","title":{"rendered":"Woking art gallery avoids closure with new funding deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council had considered cutting all funding, but papers presented to its September executive committee said this would have made the gallery unviable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Ellen Nicholson, deputy leader of the council, said: &#8220;They really are a valuable resource to have within Woking and they do such good work within our local community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lightbox received \u00a3425,000 in 2022\/23, but this will fall to \u00a3150,000 in 2025\/26, reducing by \u00a325,000 each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s \u00a3130,000 grant was funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, according to the  <a href=\"https:\/\/ldrs.org.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council had considered cutting all funding, but papers presented to its September executive committee said this would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-150218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}