Below are grants we have awarded over the last three years.
We have awarded over £6 million pounds in grants since our inception in 1965.
© Joel C Fildes
Grants Awarded
| Grants Awarded Year ending March 2021 | Description | £ |
|---|---|---|
| Africa OyŽ | Africa OyŽ Podcast project | 2000 |
| Art with Heart | Stan - a bilingual (English/BSL) children's theatre production in Greater Manchester and Cheshire. | 4000 |
| Bluecoat | Commissioned piece and activities for new Children's Area. | 2000 |
| Box of Tricks Theatre Company | Playbox - a writer-on-attachment programme. | 2000 |
| Buxton International Festival | Elements of Platform 3 - a joint initiative with BIF and Buxton Opera House | 5000 |
| Cartwheel Arts | An Arts Week for 2021 Festival | 2000 |
| Cheshire Dance | Online community dance and movement sessions. | 1000 |
| Delia Derbyshire Day | DD Day Covid Creativity Response 2021 | 1500 |
| FACT | FACT Together digital residency programme | 2500 |
| Friends of Kirkby Gallery & Prescot Museum | Resources for an educational project About Time | 2000 |
| HOME | Homeground - a new, temporary outdoor festival | 5000 |
| Inner City Music Ltd (Band on the Wall) | A series of pop-up concerts across Greater Manchester. | 6400 |
| Lakeland Arts | MEND (Make, Enjoy, New Dialogue) project commissions. | 2000 |
| Live Music Now - North West | Online concerts and workshops for special schools | 2000 |
| Liverpool & Merseyside Theatres Trust | The Playhouse Studio Commissions project | 4000 |
| Manchester Camerata | Music/song-writing workshops in schools in Gorton and Longsight | 3940 |
| Manchester Collective | 3 artist commissions for Northern Voices project | 3000 |
| Oldham Coliseum Theatre | Digital Communities online creative project for six local community groups | 5000 |
| One Tenth Human | Curious Investigators project as part of the Just So Festival in Cheshire | 2000 |
| People's History Museum | 3 community curators-in-residence for Nothing About Us Without Us exhibition | 2400 |
| Royal Exchange Theatre Company | LocalTALE playwriting competition | 2500 |
| Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society | Purchase of children's orchestral instruments for In Harmony project | 5000 |
| Royal Northern College of Music | Pathfinder workshops for young musicians across the North West | 3000 |
| Signal Film & Media | Two outreach participation events | 4000 |
| Streetwise Opera | Year-long creative programme in Manchester for homeless people | 3000 |
| The Javaad Alipoor Company (Northern Lines) | Pop Icons project | 3000 |
| The Portico Library | What's Your Story? a library project to create access to The Portico Collection | 2000 |
| The REACT Foundation | Science based residential trip to Manchester as part of ICANTOO project | 5000 |
| The Reader Organisation | Gravity Festival - a new literature and mental health festival | 2500 |
| The Untold Orchestra | Untold Stories: Blue project | 2000 |
| Tmesis Theatre | Three projects aimed at young female creatives | 3000 |
| Unity Theatre | Access and inclusion project for Unity's artistic programming | 4000 |
| Z-arts | Big Imaginations Festival 2021 | 3000 |
| Total (competitive bid grants) | 101,740 | |
| In addition, Emergency Fund grants were made to 30 organisations totalling | 75,000 | |
| Total grants awarded | 176,740 |
| Grants Awarded Year ending March 2022 | Description | £ |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Stories High | Here and Now programme 2021-2022. | 3,000 |
| Band on the Wall | Support for new learning programme until September 2023. | 10,000 |
| Black Gold Arts | The BGA Whitworth Takeover - Weekend Festival 2022. | 3,000 |
| Blaze | Creative networking event for young artists in the North West. | 1,000 |
| Brighter Sound | The Residency Programme/Creative Commissions. | 5,000 |
| Buxton International Festival | A new operetta/musical, April in your Eyes. | 10,000 |
| Castlefield Gallery | Commissions for Art Assembly 2022 Festival in Manchester City Centre. | 5,000 |
| ChethamÕs School of Music | Guitar Festival at The Stoller Hall. | 3,000 |
| Citadel Arts | AleihaÕs Adventure - a newly commissioned participatory childrenÕs play. | 1,000 |
| Clonter Farm Music Trust | Explore Theatre Arts project - virtual and live interactive workshops for schools across the North West. | 2,500 |
| Community Arts North West (CAN) | CAN Young Refugee Artists (CYRA) project for young refugees aged 13-21. | 3,500 |
| DaDafest | Artist Incubation Hub as part of DaDaFest 2022. | 5,000 |
| Drake Music | DMLab North West programme. | 3,000 |
| Electric Voice Theatre | Voices for the Future - Beatrix Potter Project. | 2,000 |
| English Folk Expo | Manchester Folk Festival 2021. | 3,000 |
| Festival of Making | New Makers commissioning project. | 4,000 |
| Frozen Light | Night Out in Nature for Now Northwich Festival 2022. | 2,000 |
| Garstang & District Arts Society | Ë Pleine Aire Competition for artists from Garstang and Lancashire | 500 |
| Heart of Glass | Commission for a LGBTQIA+ Artist to co-design a bus wrap in St Helens and Knowsley. | 2,000 |
| History in Action | The Cotton Famine Road community arts project. | 3,000 |
| Homotopia | Queer Core project. | 1,500 |
| Horse & Bamboo Theatre | Baby Boo theatre access and outreach programme. | 2,000 |
| Interact Stroke Support | Actors readings at Trafford General Hospital. | 1,000 |
| Lake District Summer Music | The 2021 Festival. | 3000 |
| Lake District Summer Music | The 2022 Festival. | 8000 |
| Lakeland Arts | Julie Brook: Tide, Time and Gravity exhibition and commission. | 5000 |
| Lakeland Sinfonia | Two Lakeland Sinfonia concerts in Kendal. | 3000 |
| Leigh Film Society | Wigan & Leigh Short Film Festival 2022. | 2000 |
| Link4Life | The Others and Whose Voice projects. | 4000 |
| Liverpool Arab Arts Festival | Cultural Education Project - creative workshops for schools as part of the 2022 Festival. | 2000 |
| Liverpool Cathedral | Peter WalkerÕs artwork space. | 2000 |
| Liverpool Theatre Festival | Commissions for new works for Little LTF 2022. | 2000 |
| Manchester Camerata | Sing and Sign 2 - a schools project for 6 Manchester primary schools | 3000 |
| Manchester City Galleries Trust | Platt Hall Curator for the Co-Curation of the West African Textile Collection | 3000 |
| Manchester Collective | Northern Voices 2022 - commissioning scheme for under-represented artists in Greater Manchester | 3000 |
| Manchester Histories | 4 artists commissions for Manchester Histories Festival 2021. | 2000 |
| Manchester Literature Festival | 4 new commissions for the 2022 Festival. | 2000 |
| Mary Burns Community Group | Bury New Road project. | 2000 |
| Merseyside Dance Initiative (MDI) | Talent Hub programme 2022. | 3000 |
| Movema | Stronger Together project Ð weekly world dance classes in Liverpool. | 2000 |
| Northern Ballet | Pinocchio - children's ballet workshops and tour for the North West. | 3000 |
| Olympias Music Foundation | Learn to Play - tuition and workshops for children 6-16 in Longsight. | 3000 |
| OmniMusic | Reboot - a 3 months creative music project | 2000 |
| One Latin Culture | 2021 Festival of Arts, Culture and Conversation | 2000 |
| Plaza Community Cinema | Prejudice - a film and creative media project | 2000 |
| Prestwich Arts Festival | Artists commissions for 2021 Festival | 1500 |
| Prestwich Arts Festival | Artists commissions for the 2022 Festival | 1000 |
| Psappha | Composing for... programme 2021/22 | 4000 |
| Quarantine | The People of project Ð an outdoor audio walk | 2000 |
| Read for Good | The Liverpool Readathon 2022 programme | 2000 |
| Royal Exchange Theatre | MCR CR8 art competition as part of Cheetham Hill residency. | 1500 |
| Shakespeare North Trust | Shakespeare North Playhouse Schools programme | 5000 |
| Southbank Centre | Art By Post project Manchester tour. | 2000 |
| Streetwise Opera | Creating Together in Manchester programme. | 3000 |
| Tate Liverpool | Radical Landscapes - 2022 exhibition and public programme and workshops. | 5000 |
| The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre | To establish a new theatre group for learning disabled young people. | 2000 |
| The Reader | Gravity Festival 2022. | 2000 |
| The Untold Orchestra | Untold Stories - Icon Show Series - creative workshops and performances. | 3000 |
| Venture Arts | Conversations Series 3: Narratives project. | 4000 |
| Wild Rumpus | Woodland Venue project. | 2000 |
| Writing on the Wall | New commissioning programme Writers on Readers as part of WoWFest 2022. | 2000 |
| Ykids | Bootle ChildrenÕs Literary Festival 2021. | 2000 |
| Total | 183,000 |
| Grants Awarded Year ending March 2023 | Description | £ |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Stories High | LOOPS: North West tour of schools and community venues. | 3000 |
| Abandon Normal Devices | New Cinema Days project. | 2000 |
| Bluecoat | Studio Me project. | 2000 |
| Bolton Lads & Girls Club | Pilot project with Bolton Museum & Manchester Art Gallery. | 2000 |
| Clonter Farm Music Trust | 2022/23 Education Outreach in areas of low engagement with the Arts in Cheshire, Warrington and Merseyside | 2000 |
| Cumbria Opera Group | The Cumbria Opera Festival 2023. | 2000 |
| Dibby Theatre Ltd | Toxic, a new multi-disciplinary project. | 2000 |
| Dig Media Ltd | Preservation/digitalisation of archives of Jack Henry Moore (JHM). | 2000 |
| Granby Four Street CLT | Year-long artist residency programme at the Winter Garden. | 2000 |
| Halle Concerts Society | HallŽ4Brass programme. | 2500 |
| Imitating the dog | Infinite Life mapping projection piece | 2000 |
| Litfest | Three public engagement projects for Litfest 2023. | 1000 |
| Liverpool Biennial | A Biennial for All project for 2023 Biennial | 7000 |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Living Liverpool, citizen science project | 4000 |
| Mahogany Opera | Snappy Operas, in-school programme. | 1000 |
| Manchester City of Literature | Libraries Takeover project. | 2000 |
| Manchester Collective | Manchester workshops for children and performance of community opera NoyeÕs Fludde. | 2500 |
| Manchester Histories | ÔCome and ChatÕ project in the new MH Hub in Central Library. | 1000 |
| Manchester Jazz Festival | New commission ÔSŽanceÕ for 2023 festival. | 1000 |
| Music Action International | Crisis Choirs programme for Refugee Week 2023. | 2000 |
| Northern Ballet | North West element of Ugly Duckling tour in 2023 and accompanying outreach workshops. | 3000 |
| Oldham Coliseum Theatre | Theatre of Sanctuary, Oldham Young People pilot project. | 2000 |
| One Latin Culture | LA FERIA, an 8 day Latin American cultural celebration in Merseyside. | 2000 |
| One Tenth Human | The Lightbulb Princess project. | 2000 |
| Peoplescape Theatre | The Gingerbread Man tour in Greater Manchester schools. | 2000 |
| Quarantine | 12 Last Songs, a 12-hour-long theatre production | 2000 |
| Science and Industry Museum | Young People Panel for Manchester Science Festival 2022. | 4000 |
| SICC Productions Limited | Pigeons and Doves, a new writing initiative for 7-18 year olds. | 1500 |
| Signal Film & Media | TIDAL, a digital arts programme. | 2000 |
| South Cumbria Music Festival | 2023 South Cumbria Music Festival. | 1000 |
| St John the Baptist Church - Salford Diocese | Mosaic Restoration and Workshops project. | 1500 |
| The Factory of Creativity (Hope Mill Theatre) | TURN ON FEST 2023, as part of LGBTQIA+ Arts Festival in Greater Manchester. | 2000 |
| The REACT Foundation | ICanToo project Ð cohort 2 Manchester Residential 2023. | 2000 |
| Theatre Factory | ÔFollow the MoneyÕ Ð verbatim theatre show. | 2000 |
| UK Storyhouse Ltd | Storyhouse Elders project. | 2000 |
| Total | 76000 |