More than 100 arts venues, museums, and libraries across England will receive a combined £130m under the government's Arts Everywhere Fund, in what officials are calling the largest single injection of arts funding in ten years. The money, administered by Arts Council England, is divided across three streams supporting infrastructure repairs, museum development, and library improvements — with recipients including the Lowry Centre in Salford, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Warwickshire, and Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire (the former ancestral home of poet Lord Byron). The announcement matters because Arts Council England's budget was cut by 30% in 2010, and the new funding forms part of a broader £1.5bn cultural infrastructure package intended to save more than 1,000 venues from closure or serious disrepair over the course of the current parliament.