{"id":497958,"date":"2026-03-27T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:47:08","slug":"notting-hill-carnival-given-5m-to-combat-overcrowding-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497958\/","title":{"rendered":"Notting Hill Carnival given \u00a35m to combat overcrowding dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mayor of London has announced an additional \u00a34.66m in funding to support Notting Hill Carnival this year as it celebrates its 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will enable organisers to deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/who-we-are\/what-london-assembly-does\/london-assembly-work\/london-assembly-publications\/review-notting-hill-carnival-crowd-numbers-mass-casualty-event-occurs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">potential overcrowding at the event, following an independent review, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The celebration of Caribbean history and culture is one of the world&#8217;s biggest street festivals and &#8211; according to City Hall &#8211; boosts the economy by nearly \u00a3400m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Sadiq Khan said the growth in size and popularity of the event meant safety and security needed to be improved, and he was stepping in with the support &#8220;to ensure that this hugely important event for our capital can take place, as we build a better London for everyone&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mayor of London has announced an additional \u00a34.66m in funding to support Notting Hill Carnival this year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-497958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}