Community fact-check: Primary Events

We’ve decided to publish the full application submitted by Primary Events Solutions to the Arts Council’s Culture Recovery Fund in January 2021. The document was obtained via a Freedom of Information request in late 2022, so some parts of have been redacted to protect information considered commercially sensitive etc.

Our editor Joshi has explained why we are doing this in his note to readers. If you have any thoughts, findings, tips or documents relating to the application, please send them to editor@manchestermill.co.uk ASAP. Thanks for your help.

Click here to read the application document via Dropbox.

UPDATE, 23 May: Click here to read Sacha Lord’s 23 May statement.

UPDATE, 28 September: Click here to read Arts Council England’s assessment document


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