2015-2016

During the financial year 2015/16 the Trust made the following grants:

Org’n Project Grant

National Museum Wales

3rd Year of Contemporary Gallery programme: including Fragile?  – Exhibition of contemporary ceramics,
Silent Explosion – Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art, and the acquisition of works by Rachel Kneebone and Simon Carroll. 

£150,000

Welsh National Opera

 

 

To support the Implementation of the Company’s Digital Strategy over 2 years (1st tranche)

New production of an opera based on Peter Pan by Richard Ayres with associated audience development initiatives to encourage families & children to the opera.

£83,000

 

£50,000

Wales Millennium Centre

To support costs of the new Festival of Voice in summer 2016. (1st tranche)

£50,000

Artes Mundi 7

To support the expansion & development of Artes Mundi (1st tranche)

£45,000

The Christie Archive Settlement

Unfinished Portrait – an exhibition on the life and work of Agatha Christie in celebration of the 125th anniversary of her birth.

£35,000

Mousetrap Theatre Projects

Family First Nights programme  (1st of 2)  & a pilot programme of Play the Critic – opera

£24,357

Gregynog Festival

Core support for 2015 Festival

£20,000

Arts & Business Cymru

Creative Internships Programme Year 3

£20,000

The Aloud Charity

Support for the activities of Only Boys Aloud to encourage a revival of choral singing in the South Wales Valleys.

£12,500

National Manuscripts Conservation Trust

2 Wales related conservation projects:  Gwynedd Archives and Glamorgan Archives

£10,700

Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music

Core support for the 2015 Festival

£10,000

Three Choirs Festival

Core funding for artistic programme for the 300th Festival.

£10,000

Locws International

To support the Arts Outreach & Learning Programme

£9,000

Swansea International Festival of Music

Core support for the 2015 Festival.

 

£7,500

North Wales International Music Festival

The Power of Light project: a cross -curricular education project utilizing a poet, musicians, artist and scientists for both primary & secondary school students.

£6 000

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

A continuation grant in support of the Jazz Performance Programme and Festival during summer 2015

£5,250

Young Music Makers of Dyfed

Core Funding (1st of  2)

£5,000

Cowbridge Music Festival

Core funding for the 2015 Festival

£5,000

Ty Cerdd

Support for a new choral commission from Paul Mealor for National Youth Choir Wales

£3,000

Morely College

Support for the Wales element of a nationwide initiative to encourage female graduate musicians to consider orchestral conducting as a career. 

£2,500

Total

 

£563,807