We are a registered charity, formed in 1991. Since 1992 we have made over 100 awards to artists and arts organisations in the City of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (including North and North East Lincolnshire).
We are committed to supporting highest standards of arts practice in our area through provision of an annual Award programme and development workshops.
Constituted in 1991 and launched as a new arts Trust in 1992, the Foundation takes its name from the former property of Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts known as St Hugh’s, on Newport, Lincoln.
Lincolnshire & Humberside Arts (LHA) was one of the twelve Regional Arts Associations (RAAs) in England responsible for arts development and funding, resourced by Government in partnership with local authorities. LHA had been one of the early pioneers in that regionally-driven structure since 1964. Following restructuring of the arts funding system in 1991, with the RAAs replaced by Arts Boards (later to become regional offices of the Arts Council), boundary changes and the dissolution of LHA, it was decided to use the value of its property to establish a Foundation which would benefit the old region in perpetuity.
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