National Poetry Centre
{{Short description|UK charity based in Leeds, England}}
File:Logo of National Poetry Centre 2024.svg
The National Poetry Centre of the United Kingdom is a charity, registered in 2022, which plans to open a centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 2027.
Its trustees include Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, who has said "My highest ambition when appointed Poet Laureate was to create a national home for poetry in my native West Yorkshire."
In March 2024, it was announced that the Department for Levelling Up would make a grant of £5 million to the centre.{{cite news |title=National Poetry Centre in Leeds gets £5m funding boost |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68504054 |access-date=9 March 2024 |work=BBC News |date=7 March 2024}}{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Government backs National Poetry Centre on Leeds campus |url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/news/article/5527/government-backs-national-poetry-centre-on-leeds-campus |website=www.leeds.ac.uk |publisher=University of Leeds |access-date=9 March 2024 |language=en |date=7 March 2024}}
Building
File:Trinity St David's Congregational Chapel (former) (Taken by Flickr user 7th February 2013).jpg
The centre is to occupy the former Trinity St David's church on Woodhouse Lane, adjacent to the University of Leeds campus.{{cite news |last1=Burn |first1=Chris |title=Famous Leeds site to become new home of National Poetry Centre, Simon Armitage reveals |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/famous-leeds-site-to-become-new-home-of-national-poetry-centre-simon-armitage-reveals-3995446 |access-date=9 March 2024 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=20 January 2023}} This is a grade II listed building,{{NHLE | num=1255657 |desc=Trinity Congregational Church, Sunday School and Lodge | access-date=9 March 2024}}
{{NHLE|num=1255658 |desc=Boundary wall with gate piers and gates to Trinity Congregational Church |access-date=10 March 2024 }} which was a Congregational church from 1902 to 1972 and a United Reformed church from 1972 to 1997, and more recently has been used as a university furniture store and as a nightclub under the names "Halo" and "Quilted Llama".{{cite web |title=Yorkshire, West, Leeds, Trinity St. David, Woodhouse Lane |url=https://npor.org.uk/survey/R00802 |website=npor.org.uk |publisher=The National Pipe Organ Register |access-date=9 March 2024}}
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.nationalpoetrycentre.org.uk/}}
- {{EW charity|num=1200861 |name=National Poetry Centre}}
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Category:Charities based in West Yorkshire
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