Category: News

  • Edward Barnsley Educational Trust

    The Radcliffe Trust are proud to support organisations that preserve and promote traditional craftsmanship. One such organisation is the Edward Barnsley’s Trust, the Edward Barnsley historic Arts and Crafts workshops are a cornerstone of British furniture-making since its founding in 1923. With a legacy rooted in excellence and design, the workshop continues to pass on…

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  • The Fruitmarket Gallery   

    The Fruitmarket Gallery is one of Scotland’s leading contemporary art venues; open seven days a week and completely free to visit. Artists and audiences are enabled to create and experience extraordinary work across art-forms through a diverse, international programme of artistically excellent exhibitions, public commissions, and an annual festival of new music commissions and live…

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  • Whitchurch Silk Mill – George Washington

    Whitchurch Silk Mill has been open as a living museum since 1990, under the management of Whitchurch Silk Mill Trust, to ensure the survival of silk weaving using traditional machinery and methods. The mill’s collections span over 200 years and about 5,000 objects and tell the story of 200 years of silk making in Whitchurch.…

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  • The Shakespeare Globe

    The Radcliffe Trust awarded The Shakespeare Globe Trust a grant to support developing skills in stage craft directing. The photograph above is from the production of Three Sisters by Anton Chekov The grant was spent on funding an early career Assistant Director for a production of Chekov’s “Three Sisters”. Shakespeare’s Globe was delighted to be…

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  • Aurora Orchestra

    The Radcliffe Trust supported the Aurora Orchestra with the production costs for two performances of Martin Suckling’s The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse at Kings Place in November 2024 – one for families, and one for local Camden primary schools.  This production was aimed at 4-8 year-olds.  They are very grateful for the grant…

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  • Oxford Lieder – (Oxford International Song Festival’s Young Artist Programme in 2024)

    The Radcliffe Trust awarded Oxford Lieder a grant to support their an annual 12-month, world-class professional development programme for up to 8 early-career pianist/singer duos, combining professional mentoring with performance, curatorial and pedagogic opportunities that showcases and nurtures the UK’s finest young and emerging artists. The Young Artists are all now benefiting from a suite…

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  • Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter

    Exeter Cathedral was founded in 1050, and is a magnificent building, steeped in history. The present cathedral was built between 1114 and 1258 and is one of the best and most complete surviving examples of the English Decorative style of architecture left. A place of spirituality, learning and outreach, it is seen as an essential…

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  • Orchard Barn Environmental Education Centre

    Orchard Barn is a volunteer-run centre for environmental education in rural mid Suffolk providing practical training in traditional timber framing and construction techniques. Students are taken into the woods to learn to source / hand convert trees into timber and dig clay. Over 5,000 trainees/volunteers have benefitted over the years with hands-on learning on practical…

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  • Rowan Humberstone

    Rowan Humberstone is an arts centre and forest school for adults with learning disabilities based in Cambridgeshire.   Since their inception in 1984 Rowan Humberstone has provided a safe, creative, and enriching environment where the arts are used as a tool to bring people together and tackle social exclusion. The Radcliffe Trust has provided a number…

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  • Veterans’ Growth

    Veterans’ Growth is a charity based on five acres of peaceful farmland in East Sussex. It supports veterans struggling with mental health challenges. Their programme combines rehabilitation with skill-building activities such as horticulture and woodworking. One of their most successful initiatives is the “Small Acorns” woodworking project, partly funded by The Radcliffe Trust. Veterans’ Growth’s…

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