Category: News

  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    The Radcliffe Trust supported the Academy of St Martin in the Fields’ digital campaign during lockdown, aimed at creating work for its musicians and expanding the amount of audio visual footage of the orchestra that is available online. The Academy successfully raised £100,000 from a number of sources, enabling them to fund streamed broadcasts of

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  • The Radcliffe Trust supports the Help Musicians UK hardship fund

    The Trust has made a range of grants to organisations responding to the current pandemic in innovative ways.  As part of this programme the Trust has made a grant to Help Musicians UK for its hardship fund. For more information visit www.helpmusicians.org.uk.  

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  • The Crafts Council Hardship Fund

    In response to the huge challenges Heritage and Craft makers and businesses are facing at present, The Radcliffe Trust has made a grant to The Crafts Council for a hardship fund.  The fund launched on 17th June 2020. The Crafts Council has consulted with Icon, the Heritage Crafts Association and The Guild of Master Craftsmen,

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  • The Radcliffe Infirmary

    A commemorative plaque, paid for by The Radcliffe Trust, is now installed on the wall of the Old Radcliffe Infirmary. A ‘socially distanced’ unveiling took place in May 2020, and a more formal event is planned for when lock-down restrictions are eased. The plaque reads; “To honour the doctors and nurses and all who cared

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  • Wigmore Hall Commissioning Series

    The Radcliffe Trust is proud to be partnering Wigmore Hall in an important series of chamber music commissions.  Initiated as part of our Tercentenary, the series fell naturally into two parts, the first comprising six new string quartets; and the second, a quartet, sextet, and octet commissioned from 2016 through to 2019. The composers are

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  • The statue of Dr John Radcliffe at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

    The 25th September 2018 marked the unveiling of the statue of Dr John Radcliffe, situated at Green Templeton College, Oxford. The Radcliffe Trust has a long history with the city and University of Oxford having provided funding to build the Radcliffe Camera, the Radcliffe Observatory and the Radcliffe Infirmary. Given the Trust’s Tercentenary, it seemed

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  • The Balfour of Burleigh Tercentenary Prizes for Exceptional Achievement in Crafts

    In 2014-2015 The Radcliffe Trust commemorated the 300th anniversary of its establishment by Dr John Radcliffe of Oxford.  As part of its Tercentenary, the Trust celebrated the achievements of the many extraordinary organisations and individuals it has supported over the years with the Balfour of Burleigh Tercentenary Prizes for Exceptional Achievement in Crafts. These prizes

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  • BREATHe

    A new composition by Orlando Gough, developed through research in the Respiratory Medicine department at the Churchill Hospital. The composition highlights breath as an essential part of the human life cycle. This new piece of music theatre was performed at The North Wall by three women who sing about breath from birth to death. www.ocmevents.org

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  • “Remembering Radcliffe: 300 years of science and philanthropy”

    The Bodleian Libraries’ winter 2014 exhibition celebrated the life and legacy of John Radcliffe, a physician and philanthropist who left a lasting mark on the University and city of Oxford. The exhibition considered his legacy to Oxford, and the three buildings in the city which bear his name: the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Radcliffe Observatory, and the

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  • Heritage and Crafts: working together to develop skills and sustain the sector, 24 March 2011

    One of the outcomes of the exploratory Round Table held on 13 July 2010 was the co-organisation, in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), of a follow-up event which took place on 24 March 2011 at Mary Ward House in London. This was attended by over 130 organisations from the Heritage and Crafts sectors,

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