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Daimler Powerhouse’s Creation Centre
27th November, 2020

Daimler Powerhouse continues to take shape in Coventry with final funding boost

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Via Helen for The Daimler Powerhouse

Daimler Powerhouse
continues to take shape in Coventry with final funding boost

  • The Daimler Powerhouse, currently in development, received a final funding boost from Arts Council England this month.
  • The £150,000 from Arts Council England will ensure state of the art infrastructure is embedded within this new creative hub.

The Daimler Powerhouse, a new £2.5million creative hub currently in development in Coventry, received a final funding boost from Arts Council England this month. Led by Imagineer, the purpose-built Daimler Powerhouse Creation Centre will focus primarily on outdoor arts and play an integral part in supporting the UK City of Culture 2021.

The £150,000 funding from Arts Council England will ensure state of the art infrastructure is embedded within the building including music and sound facilities, Aerial facilities including a Vertical Dance Wall as well as essential IT and construction equipment.

Daimler Powerhouse’s Creation Centre

In addition to this new funding, the redevelopment is funded through £1.9 million from the Cultural Capital Investment Fund which is resourced from Coventry City Council and the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership’s Growth Deal.

The Wigley Group, which owns Sandy Lane Business Park and are undertaking the development work, is contributing an additional £350,000 to enable the project to proceed as well as agreeing a highly-discounted 20-year lease on Daimler Powerhouse, as well as a neighbouring building, as part of the redevelopment. Additional funding has been raised from The Foyle Foundation, Medwell-Hyde, The Garfield Weston Foundation and The May 29th 1961 Charitable Trust.

The building will provide much needed and dedicated fully accessible spaces for the production of outdoor and site-specific work becoming part of a network of growing national and international creation centres.

As well as providing a home for Imagineer’s innovative education and training programmes aimed at young people and people with disabilities, The Daimler Powerhouse will also be home to five resident companies Imagineer, Highly Sprung, Media Mania, Open Theatre and Talking Birds.

Jane Hytch, Chief Executive of Imagineer said:

This funding from Arts Council England is fantastic news, the final piece in the funding jigsaw to make this new centre for creative excellence a reality! Work continues apace on the building and it is so heartening in these difficult times to be creating a space for future generations of artists and creative engineers. It is wonderful to see the building, which has a history of excellence, coming to life again.”

Peter Knott, Area Director, Arts Council England:

We are delighted to provide this final piece of funding to help restore the Daimler Building back to its former glory, and to be investing in a state of the art space for Imagineer and other Coventry artists to create in. Thank you to the National Lottery and its players for making this funding possible.

As Coventry enters its year as City of Culture in 2021, places like the Daimler Powerhouse will play a crucial role in nurturing the talent that the city has to offer, as well as providing moments that will amaze people and cement Coventry’s place on the map.”

The Daimler Building was once a centre of excellence, the first car factory in Britain. Now it will be a creative centre of excellence combining art, environment, engineering and social change.

To find out more about the history of the building and development follow:
Twitter.com/ImagineerUK, facebook.com/imagineerprod Instagram.com/imagineeruk and follow the development via the website at imagineer-productions.co.uk


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