We are celebrating a win for the Byron Statue project today as the long campaign to raise funds for its relocation to Hyde Park has succeeded with £230k lottery funding. HOLT has supported the project with a grant and helped the Byron Society's fundraising efforts. Work should start later this year.
Proud Places has already involved nearly 450 young people in the project through assemblies, workshops and visits to the statue which will continue throughout the project.
HOLT's 2024 Poet for Places, Kira Nelson, wrote a ballad Vyronas in honour of Byron’s bicentenary, visiting some of London's alternative provision schools to teach young people poetry. With Kira's support, students at Ormiston Latimer Academy overcame their poetry inhibitions and produced wonderful poems inspired by the project.
Read more in the article below published in today's Times newspaper.
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