Category: News

  • Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

    The Radcliffe Trust gave Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park a grant to:- Bring Heritage Crafts to Disadvantaged Communities in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Through Green Woodworking. The original aim was to deliver free and inclusive green woodworking sessions to connect disadvantaged communities, increase skills, improve social inclusion and increase knowledge of heritage crafts.  The

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  • National Heritage Ironwork Group

    The Ironwork Conservation Working Parties pilot scheme was set up with the help of a grant from The Radcliffe Trust to teach ironwork conservation techniques. The project, inspired by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings’ (SPAB) ‘working party’ model, represents a diversification of education provision and is a new departure for The National

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  • Little Angel Theatre

    This award from The Radcliffe Trust has enabled The Little Angel Theatre to offer a traineeship in Puppetry. They received 181 applications for one place, showing the demand is there for opportunities like this and shows that many emerging young makers are struggling to break into this industry. This makes The Little Angel Theatre even

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  • Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain

    The grant given to the Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain by the Radcliffe Trust was critical to a brand new course ‘Technical Skills Training – Seal Engraving’ being created. The grant enabled a second funder to release funds (who had stipulated that they would not be able to fund the project as a whole).

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  • Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People

    Rainbows delivers essential end-of-life care, creating new memories for children, young people and their families through their Music Therapy Service.  The Radcliffe Trust ‘Therapy and Special Needs’ category supports charities such as Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People in order to provide care for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, from

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  • Young Music Makers of Dyfed

    Young Music Makers of Dyfed, with the help of a grant from The Radcliffe Trust encourages young people to perform, and compose, and in doing so elevate their horizons as to the standards of these artistic disciplines. The Young Composer scheme was supported by a grant from The Radcliffe Trust and began in September 2022

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  • Charles Wood Festival of Music (Charles Wood Summer School)

    The Radcliffe Trust were delighted to be able to award The Charles Wood Festival of Music and Summer School (CWFMSS) a grant to help them return, following the challenges of the last two years due to Covid, with a full programme of over 20 live and digital events in Armagh’s sacred spaces, from Sunday 21st

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  • Ulster Youth Orchestra

    The Radcliffe Trust awarded a grant to The Ulster Youth Orchestra for the Summer Residential Course in 2022 where 90 incredibly talented young musicians spent 10 days rehearsing.  After which they delivered two outstanding concerts, conducted by the internationally acclaimed conductor Jac van Steen at the Guildhall in Derry/Londonderry and at the Ulster Hall in

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  • The Royal Northern College of Music

    The Radcliffe Trust has provided awards to the Royal Northern College of Music, for UK postgraduate composition students. Celebrating its 50th birthday in 2023, the RNCM is recognised as one of the world’s most forward-thinking conservatoires. Home to over 900 students from more than 60 countries, it is dedicated to providing an outstanding education that

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  • The Heritage Crafts Association

    Radcliffe Trust support for The Heritage Crafts Association Heritage Crafts is the operating name of The Heritage Crafts Association, the national charity for traditional heritage crafts. Working in partnership with Government and key agencies, it provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies and guilds, as well as individuals who care about the loss of traditional

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