Decision details

(1)       The West Midlands Combined Authority pledged its support to work with the Coventry City of Culture Trust and other partners to maximise the benefit of a winning bid to the promotion of the West Midlands.

(2)       The West Midlands Combined Authority resolved to work with Coventry 2021 to build on the momentum of the bid and its work in repositioning culture in Coventry and across the region.

(3)       Consideration of a potential allocation of £4m over four years to support a total of £37.9m investment if Coventry was successful in being named UK City of Culture 2021, to be done alongside all the other requests for capital and revenue investment into the WMCA and in line with the current and future analysis of aggregate funding availability, would be included in the WMCA’s medium-term budgeting process.

(4)       Consideration of a potential allocation of £1m over four years to support the programme if the Bid was unsuccessful would be included in the WMCA’s medium-term budgeting process, in order to help deliver the alternative legacy cultural programme.