Notting Hill carnival to go ahead this year after £1m funding boost | Notting Hill carnival
Notting Hill Carnival will continue this year after financing approximately £ 1 million to provide extra security and infrastructure measures.
Together with the Council of Council, Kensington and Chelsea Council and Westminster Municipal Assembly, after proposed a few changes to secure the effectiveness of a review, it provided £ 958,000 for the event following the satisfaction of the organizers.
Ian Comfort Notting Hill Carnival Ltd, addressing Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy for additional support, said that the event was guaranteed just in time of the future of the event.
The event always takes place on Saturday, August 23rd Monday, August 25th.
“Although this support came only weeks before this support event, it is a very needed and pleasant commitment,” Comfort said.
“This support strengthens its importance as a cultural institution in the center of London’s identity and in the center of the creative and economic life of the country.”
In June, according to a letter leaked from the organizers, it turned out that the annual celebration could be in danger without the government without “emergency financing”.
In the letter, this was followed by the review of the festival, which requires additional financing “critical public security concerns”.
Approximately 7,000 policemen were deployed every year and the numbers published in 2023 Effect Cold Cost of 11.7 million pounds.
The independent security review, whose findings and suggestions were not publicly explained, was assigned by carnival organizers and shared by the Great London authority, Kensington and Chelsea Council and Westminster Municipal Assembly.
Carnival was founded in 1966 in its current form and brings 2 million entertainment to the streets of Western London.
It is the biggest festival of its species in Europe, and is the celebration of the annual black British culture that attracts people from the world, which includes parade ceremonies, sound systems and masquerade ball groups.
Comfort said that although the art council, the UK provides some funds to the organizations in the carnival, there was a “great gap left”.
“The basic operational financing required to ensure that the participants can perform safely and interact is historically provided by the UK or the central government of the Art Council historically.
“Despite Carnival’s important cultural importance and significant contribution to the UK economy.”
Kensington and Chelsea Council Deputy Leader Kim Taylor-Smith said that the additional fund it provided would be “only this year” due to a budget gap of 80 million pounds of the council.
London Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: “The event exploded about our streets about twenty years ago and became one of the world’s largest street festivals that produced £ 400 million for our economy.
“This amazing growth led to a number of security measures, as defined in an independent examination earlier this year.”
