{"id":28021,"date":"2025-09-17T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28021\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:12:07","slug":"woking-art-gallery-avoids-closure-with-new-funding-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28021\/","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":28022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-28021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}