Wycombe Museum has been handed nearly £29,000 in emergency funding to help them keep going during lockdown.

The cash is from the Art Council's emergency response fund, which aims to ease the immediate pressures faced by artists, museums and libraries over the summer.

Wycombe Museum has been given £28,897, while SV2G, a High Wycombe charity which raises awareness of Caribbean heritage and culture, has been given £26,572.

The Theatre Shed in Chesham has been awarded £35,000 to stay afloat, while High Wycombe-based Signdance Collective, a touring performance company with deaf and disabled artists at the helm, has been given £31,980.

Towersey Festival, a celebration of folk, world music and traditional dance, has been handed £29,000.

With its doors firmly shut since March, Wycombe Museum has been trying to upgrade its online presence during lockdown and is asking residents what views, objects or activities will be their long-standing memory of the coronavirus outbreak.

The Priory Avenue museum wants photographs of how you are experiencing lockdown so they can select some for an online exhibition later in the summer called 'Windows on Wycombe in Lockdown'.

The Arts Council has awarded 7,484 grants totalling £17.1 million to individual artists and creative practitioners across the country.

Fifty seven individuals and organisations in Bucks and Milton Keynes have been given more than £570,000 in grants.

Hedley Swain, area director - south east, Arts Council England, said: “Our sector is in unprecedented times and I am very pleased that we have been able to award so many grants in Buckinghamshire and beyond in such a short timeframe.

"We’re extremely grateful to our partners for helping us to get this critical funding to artists, creative practitioners, arts organisations, museums and libraries – who use their creativity to benefit communities in villages, towns and cities across the country.

"I want to particularly thank National Lottery players without whom none of this would be possible, as nearly 90 per cent of our budget for our emergency response funding came from the National Lottery.”