Northern Heartlands has been chosen as one of 16 projects across the country under an Arts Council and the government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport project, dubbed the Great Place Scheme.
Among the Northern Heartlands highlights will be a two-year project in conjunction with Opera North to create a community opera.
Northern Heartlands, which was developed on the back of the Heart of Teesdale Landscape Partnership, also aims to use the arts to influence landscape policy.
It will be funded by £1.5million from the National Lottery.
The Northern Heartlands team – which includes some who were involved in the Heart of Teesdale Landscape Partnership – aim to work with some 30 other organisations including arts groups, museums, wildlife and river trusts, and the universities.
Graham Young, chairman of Northern Heartlands, said: “This is great news. Northern Heartlands is very pleased to have been chosen as the trial initiative for the Great Place Scheme in the Durham Dales.
“We have lots of ideas to put arts, culture, heritage and landscape at the heart of our communities and we can’t wait to get going.”
He added: “We are one of 16 trials throughout the country and one of three in the North East.
“We have been awarded our full bid amount of £1.5million less a tiny percentage which they have knocked off all grants and which in our case amounts to about £10,000.
“This, with other promises of grants or gifts in kind, gives us a budget of about £1.8million to support our work in encouraging an understanding and experience of the dynamic of landscape culture, the arts and our amazing heritage.”
Five people will be employed to run the scheme ahead of its start date on April 1, next year.
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