Hull highlights benefits of investing in culture

As part of its tenure as the UK City of Culture, the 2017 events in Hull brought a ‘significant increase’ in arts and culture participation and a new confidence in the city.

Research by the University of Hull's Culture, Place and Policy Institute found that the creation of 800 new jobs since 2013 in the city’s visitor and cultural sector were a result of £220 million investment ‘fully or partly attributable’ to the City of Culture award, prompting a ‘significant increase’ in arts and culture participation.

Furthermore, the research shows that although an ‘extraordinary’ 95 per cent of city residents went to at least one cultural activity, only about 20 per cent of visitors were from elsewhere in the UK, despite being in the ‘national spotlight’.

Coventry has been named as the next City of Culture, in 2021.

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