Artists all set to get new cash

The projects are among 29 in Yorkshire and the Humber which will receive a total of 313,251.

Danceworks UK in Sheffield receives 50,338 for a one-year programme of contemporary dance called Generate, aimed at young children. The project will include sessions in primary schools.

Rotherham Council and partners at the Primary Care Trust are being granted 37,127 for an arts and health study in the rural south of the borough. It will look at the impact of arts projects on residents' wellbeing.

The Site Gallery in Sheffield has 45,310 to commission a project with artists Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead to include work and tours. Rotherham-based Swamp Circus is awarded 14,822 to research and develop its new circus theatre show Miss Sarajevo. Research will include trips to Bosnia.

Sheffield musician Philip Thomas has been given 5,000 to commission and present three new works by British composers to be performed in London and at Persistence Works, while city-based silversmith and jeweller Maria Hanson receives 4,148 to produce a new collection.

Another silversmith, Maya Selway, is granted 3,300 to create new work for the Goldsmiths Fair in London and two Sheffield exhibitions.

The North East Youth Network Group has 4,223 to spend on an arts festival in Sheffield and Keith Hukin, who promotes regionally-written plays, receives 4,200 for a new work by Sheffield playwright Gordon Steel to tour Yorkshire. Sheffield literature organisation Signposts is awarded 1,470 for new IT equipment and furniture and city-based visual artist Henry Tietzsch-Tyler receives 500 to exhibit in Leeds.