Arts Council England cuts Wordsworth Trust funding

Cumbrian trust unsure whether jobs will go as a result of cut, and Lib Dem MP says arts in the region underfunded

The Wordsworth Trust, which operates museums near Grasmere devoted to the Lake District's most famous Romantic, lost £80,000 of its annual grant in the latest Arts Council England (ACE) funding round.

That cash had been used to fund a contemporary literature programme, including poetry readings, a full-time literature officer and a poet-in-residence currently the Birmingham-born writer Zaffar Kunial, one of the Faber New Poets for 2014.

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