Cockpit Arts Bursaries Spring 2023 Applications now open for - The Radcliffe Emerging Maker Award

Cockpit provides funded and subsidised spaces for talented craftspeople across two sites in London, along with in-house business support and coaching. A Cockpit award is a prestigious achievement, and a springboard for successful careers in craft, with Open Studios events twice a year drawing in large crowds of craft enthusiasts

and collectors. Applicants are selected for their excellence in skill, originality of ideas, motivation to develop a business or practice, and ambition to make a positive contribution to the Cockpit community.

Cockpit Awards Spring 2023 Applications open for:-

The Radcliffe Emerging Maker Award is open a maker from any craft discipline, who has already reached a level of excellence in skill and is is looking to take their practice to the next level. Past awardees include Patrizia Sascor, Hannah Refaat and Vanessa Hogge.

For further details and to apply, visit:

www.cockpitstudios.org/join-us/awards-and-bursaries/

Applications are open 1st March – 11th April, for studio placements starting September 2023.

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 across the East Midlands, including the provision of Music Therapy.

Thanks to the grant from the Radcliffe Trust, Rainbows has been able to offer therapeutic support for the most vulnerable and poorly children and young people with life limiting conditions.  The grant has also enabled the music therapist to visit wards in the two major hospitals in the area to meet new referrals as well as children and families already known to Rainbows.  This offers something familiar and engaging during often highly stressful periods for both the children and their families.

Throughout this project Rainbows have been able to offer bespoke sessions to children and young people across the entire East Midlands. Sessions have been offered at the hospice when children are resident for respite or end of life care, in their own homes or in the main hospital sites within the region. This means there is a continuity of care and provision of services so that families feel engaged and supported by the hospice without even setting foot in the door.

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 with presentations by the Resident Composer and the Ensemble – a string trio of players from BBC NOW – in three counties in Wales-Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Ceredigion.

They were delighted that over 90 young people took part in the group tutorials over the Autumn term and expect about 60 finished compositions to be submitted. They are being submitted now and will be workshopped and recorded with the Ensemble and the Resident Composer in March 2023. A selection of works will then be performed in a public concert at the end of March.

Young Music Makers of Dyfed would be unable to pay the Resident Composer without the award by The Radcliffe Trust.  The lasting legacy of this programme is that some young composers realise that composition could be their life’s work and go on to study composition at University.  Bringing on the next generation of composers

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 to Sunday 28th August 2022. The week was packed with top-quality music and performance.

The award from the Radcliffe Trustees had a transformative impact on the project. The grant allowed CWFMSS to assemble some of the best young professional and aspiring-professional singers from across the UK and Ireland to take part in their week-long Festival. The singers worked under the expert tuition of David Hill, Philip Scriven and Paul Farrington. These young singers will be able to take the skills they have learned back with them to their communities.

The Charles Wood Singers participated in numerous church services during the week, including a live service of Choral Evensong for BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 24th August, as well as recording a Morning Service for BBC Radio Ulster. Both of these services were recorded in St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral. The choir also performed at Sung Mass in St Malachy’s Church and St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, celebrated on both occasions by Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh.

Many singers choose to return to Armagh each year to participate in The Charles Wood Festival, either as singers or as audience members. In this way, the work of the Festival, supported by The Radcliffe Trust grant, aims to ensure a positive future for sacred church and choral music.