2014-2015

During the financial year 2014/15 the Trust made the following grants:

Org’n Project Grant
The Agatha Christie Trust for Children Research into childhood Leukaemia

£105,419

National Museum Wales Year 2 of the Contemporary Gallery Programme: including solo exhibitions by Andrea Buttner & Simon Pope, Wales: A Visitation, British Land Art –Uncommon Ground, the Learning programme and acquisition of work by Nicholas Pope.

£105,000

Welsh National Opera New productions of Schoenberg’s Moses and Aaron, and Verdi’s Nabucco

£95,000

Artes Mundi 6 Core support (2nd) for the international contemporary visual arts exhibition and associated outreach activities.

£50,000

Gregynog Festival To support artistic costs, and development new staffing structures to improve sustainability.

£40,000

The Aloud Charity To support the Only Boys Aloud activities aimed at encouraging a revival of choral singing among teenage boys in South Wales.

£25,000

Mid Wales Opera New production of Bizet’s Carmen, with a commissioned orchestral version by Stephen McNeff.

£25,000

Arts & Business Cymru Year 2 of the Creative Internships Programme.

£20,000

Valley Kids For the refurbishment of the Gallery exhibition space in The Factory

£19,650

Mousetrap Theatre Projects On going support for the Family First Night’s Programme, aimed at making theatre more accessible to families in London.

£15,000

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama In support of a Touring Jazz programme in venues across Wales

£12,500

Paintings in Hospitals Engage: Wales to establish a hub in Cardiff to promote the visual arts in health care settings. (2nd)

£10,000

Wales International Harp Festival – CGWM Core support

£10,000

Sinfonia Cymru Additional touring performances in Harlech and Llanelli with associated outreach and activities.

£10,000

The Makers Guild in Wales To support the annual Education programme.

£10,000

Bangor New Music Festival Core Funding for 2015 Festival

£9,500

Vale of Glamorgan Festival Core funding for 2014 Festival focusing on the music of living composers

£9,000

Presteigne Festival To support costs of commissions and performances of works by Hilary Tann & Lynne Plowman.

£7,500

The National Manuscript Conservation Trust For the preservation of the Victorian Playbills collection in the Glamorgan Archives.

£5,333

Awards for Young Musicians To support the annual event held in Cardiff for talented young musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds.

£5,000

Clonter Farm Music Trust New Production of Gounod’s Faust – for the development of young singers.

£5,000

Fishguard International Festival of Music Core support

£5,000

NMC Recordings Ltd. To  support the Debut Recital Disc by Mark Bowden

£5,000

Taliesin / Swansea University Educational project in association with the new opera, Under Milkwood by John Metcalf

£4,400

Clwyd Theatr Cymru Development Trust Project for the engagement of young people with classical music in North West Wales through master-classes and workshops by visiting international artists.

£4,000

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Field Notes interdisciplinary visual arts and music project.

£2,500

Oriel Davies – Newtown To support the Exhibition  –The Starry Messenger, by Bedwyr Williams in Cardiff at G39

£2,500

Mostyn Gallery – Llandudno To support costs of the Exhibition by Irma Blank, part of the Conversation Series.

£2,000

TOTAL £619,302