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05
Jul 2021
County council to offer £200,000 to fund Tour de Yorkshire
North Yorkshire County Council is to offer the tourism organisation Welcome to Yorkshire up to £200,000 of taxpayer money to hold the Tour de Yorkshire in 2022.
The event, which is usually held over the May Day bank holiday weekend, has not taken place for the last two years due to covid.
As a result, Welcome to Yorkshire has requested funding from numerous local authorities in case it fails to get sponsorship.
In a report due before senior county councillors next week, officials at the authority have set out plans to pay Welcome to Yorkshire £100,000 to hold the event.
A further £100,000 will also be set aside if the tourism body requires funding to underwrite any failure to secure sponsorship.
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However, council bosses said this would only be paid if Welcome to Yorkshire make a “final evidenced request”.
The report said:
The report added that the additional payment would be funded from the authority's reserves.
Senior county councillors on the authority’s executive will make a decision on the funding on Tuesday next week.
The request for funding in 2022 is understood to have been made to numerous local authorities, which are host towns for the race.
As Harrogate is not a host town, Harrogate Borough Council is not expected to contribute to the costs. But if North Yorkshire County Council agrees to do so then everyone in the county would pay through their council tax.
The race is being promoted as an opportunity to aid economic recovery across the region, and in particular in host towns and cities of Leyburn, Barnsley, Beverly, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Redcar and Skipton.
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