We are delighted to have been awarded £1 million from Arts Council England to continue our Creative People & Places programme in East Lancashire over the next three years.
This funding will allow us to build on the success of our work over the last 10 years with communities along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal corridor in Blackburn, Burnley, Hyndburn and Pendle, giving people new opportunities to celebrate their culture and be creative in their own right, using the area’s rich assets of environment, heritage, and community.
Since 2015 Super Slow Way has sought to put East Lancashire on the map as a cultural hot spot, contributing to the social, cultural and economic regeneration of the area, engaging over 375,000 people in a wide range of free activities from canoeing to growing projects and art and music!
Our lead body over the past ten years has been Canal & River Trust (C&RT) who have supported the development of the Super Slow Way programme across the 20 mile stretch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, helping us establish our presence both physically and socially to become what we now believe is a well loved and trusted programme among partners and participants alike.
As an established Creative People and Places programme, we have been working with Canal & River Trust and our consortium partners over the last two years to launch a new organisation (Super Slow Way Ltd) for the long term delivery of the Creative People and Places programme and wider regeneration initiatives associated with the Linear Park.
The Super Slow Way Ltd is a not for profit company and an independent organisation with Laurie Peake as Chief Executive and are well placed to host the CPP programme & support its delivery into the next decade, working with our communities, artists, partners along the canal corridor to help transform the area into a vibrant, positive, inspiring place for the everyone who lives, works and visits there.
