A new £1.4m fund created by the Mayor of London, £2.9m from the Legacy Trust UK for developing the Big Dance Project, and £1.2m from London Councils are among the funds available to arts and cultural organisations announced in a second ‘London culture and 2012’ guide published by the London Cultural Consortium. The new guide also reveals plans to make funds available for Olympic Games-related projects from other agencies and funders, including Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme. Youth Music and the MLA Partnerships “are also committing significant resources to Games related programmes”, while Visit London and other agencies “have already started to commit additional officer time and funds to promoting London’s cultural offer”. The guide includes advice on how to submit projects to be part of the Cultural Olympiad, including its launch (26–28 September), an Open Rehearsals initiative and CREATE08, a collective arts programme for the Olympic Host Boroughs of Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

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