Isabel Rodríguez remembers in Burela that more than 2,100 Lucenses can already request the help of 400€ of the Young Cultural Bonus

The subdelegate announced that 2,186 people who turn 18 can access until September 30 to the voucher to acquire cultural products and activities through the program promoted by the Ministry of Culture. Each beneficiary can allocate up to 200€ for live arts, cultural heritage and audiovisual arts; a maximum of 100€ for cultural goods in physical form and another 100€ for digital or online consumption. Rodríguez stressed that “it is an aid to support the emancipation of our young people while dynamizing a key industry such as culture”.

The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, recalled on Wednesday in Burela that both companies and Lucan boys and girls can already apply for the Xove Cultural Bonus promoted by the Ministry of Culture and Sport. It is the state program that offers a direct aid of 400 euros to people who turn 18 to buy and enjoy cultural products and activities and from which last year 1,143 young people benefited. In this sense, Isabel Rodríguez encouraged the 2,186 boys and girls of the province born in 2005 to apply for the bonus of this second edition in the web page. The deadline ends on September 30th.

The deputy delegate, accompanied by the mayor of Burela, Carmela López, visited this morning the Atril bookstore, one of the establishments adhered to the Young Cultural Voucher in the province of Lugo, to learn from the manager, Javier Chao, how this initiative is working, while exchanging impressions of the advantages offered by the program such as that those companies that are already part of the Young Cultural Voucher can continue to offer their services or products without having to carry out any procedures.

“The deadline for registration is still open, so I invite all the cultural fabric of the province, both public and private, to join the program, from theaters, festivals and movie theaters, through museums, bookstores or music stores,” added Isabel Rodríguez, who stressed that “it is an aid to support the emancipation of our young people while promoting an industry as important as cultural, stimulating commerce in the vicinity of our province.”

The Young Cultural Voucher works exclusively in those companies, businesses and #cultural entity that previously applied to join the program. In the province of Lugo there are more than twenty affiliated establishments, among them different bookshops, digital and online product stores, specialized in music and video games. In this sense, all entities interested in selling their products and services to the bearers of this card can process their adherence to the program through the web.

Valid for 1 year
For the second year in a row, the bonus is valid for 12 months following its award. Each beneficiary may allocate up to 200 euros to live arts, cultural heritage and audiovisual arts; a maximum of 100 euros to cultural goods in physical form and another 100 euros to digital or online consumption in the entities adhered to the program.

The Government is promoting this initiative, which aims to promote universal and diversified access to culture for young people, generate and strengthen the consumption habits of cultural products, create new audiences, stimulate demand and strengthen and consolidate the revitalization of the cultural sector in Spain.