Royal National Theatre, London, awarded £100,000 towards the National Theatre Skills Centre with a preference to support the training of a new generation of Stage Managers

The Grange Festival, Itchen Stoke, awarded £98,000 to cover the modernisation of the basement artist facilities

The Mayor of London’s Fund for Young Musicians, awarded £75,000 to support the ‘Scholarship Plus’ programme to be launched in 2026 (£25K P/A for three years)

The Poetry Society, London, awarded £500,000 to underpin the core costs of delivering the annual Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award for a minimum of 10 years from 2026 to 2036

Pioneer Theatres Limited, Stratford, awarded £100,000 towards an urgent upgrade of the lighting infrastructure

Chichester Festival Theatre, awarded £75,000 towards a temporary new fringe style performance space

Britten Pears Arts, Snape, awarded £500,000 towards capital campaign to improve the sustainability, accessibility and environmental efficiency of buildings, specifically insulation of the auditorium roof and upgrading the theatre lighting with LED equivalents

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation, London, awarded £250,000 towards Internal refurbishment of the Chorus Rehearsal Room

The Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000, London, awarded £200,000 towards The Annex, a five-floor extension of The Old Vic’s footprint enabling the expansion of the learning and participation programme while improving future sustainability

The Arvon Foundation, Hebden Bridge, awarded £150,000 towards major capital project: the redevelopment of Arvon’s Northern Writing House, Lumb Bank

Halle Concerts Society, Manchester, awarded £150,000 for phase one of plans to improve the storage and display of archives

PACE Theatre Company, Paisley, awarded £150,000 towards capital funding for Exchange Young People’s Theatre (Phase 2b)

The Poetry Society, London, awarded £150,000 towards the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2024 and 2025

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, Liverpool, awarded £150,000 towards the replacement of the stage at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Strand Arts Centre, Belfast, awarded £150,000 towards a major refurbishment of the building transforming it into a dedicated arts centre for the local community in east Belfast

The Yard Theatre, London, awarded £150,000 towards creating a new permanent home for the theatre

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, awarded £110,000 to invest in a new lighting console, masking and LED features

Contemporary Dance Trust Limited, London, awarded £100,000 towards refurbishment of the changing rooms, dressing rooms and café at The Place

Corn Exchange (Newbury) Trust, Newbury, awarded £100,000 towards the capital redevelopment of the Old Library to become a permanent home for creative wellbeing activity and a new studio theatre

Gateway Studio CIO, Gateshead, awarded £100,000 towards the restoration and conversion of the Trinity Centre to create a centre for arts, heritage and community

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Trust, Guildford, awarded £100,000 towards capital refurbishment to make the theatre accessible, sustainable and fit for purpose

The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, awarded £75,000 towards capital redevelopment

Royal College of Music, London, awarded £75,000 towards Britten Theatre Seating Replacement

The Foundling Museum, London, awarded £500,000 towards Securing the Future of the Building and Collection through the purchase of 999 lease

Theatr Clwyd Trust, Mold, awarded £407,000 towards major capital development of theatre serving North Wales with naming rights on Clwyd Room

Capital Theatres, Edinburgh, awarded £200,000 towards £25.6M capital project to conserve, protect and upgrade Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre

House of Illustration, London, awarded £200,000 towards creating the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

London Philharmonic Orchestra warded £195,000 as three year support for LPO Future Firsts professional development programme for emerging orchestral musicians

Bristol Music Trust awarded £150,000 as additional contribution to capital works to Bristol Beacon

Greater Manchester Arts Centre awarded £100,000 towards creation of a new artist development centre in three Grade-II listed railway arches adjacent to HOME’s main building

Leeds Theatre Trust, Leeds, awarded £100,000 towards roof works at the Leeds Playhouse

Whitechapel Gallery, London, awarded £100,000 towards essential roof works to the main exhibition spaces

Cockpit Arts, London, awarded £75,000 towards capital project to refurbish and extend Cockpit Deptford to provide additional affordable artist studios and opening up spaces for community workshops, events and training

Liberdade Community Development Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, awarded £75,000 towards the costs of refitting the theatrical infrastructure in the auditorium of Gosforth Civic Theatre

The Poetry Society, London, awarded £75,000 towards support for Foyle Young Poets of the Year in 2023, and transition to a new model

Sadler’s Wells Trust, London, awarded £75,000 towards Well Seasoned: Celebrating Black Artists, a season of performances at Sadler’s Wells by artists of colour with an emphasis both on the creative African diaspora and work from diverse UK artists (March 2022 onwards)

Theatre503, London, awarded £75,000 towards the new 503Studio at Nine Elms

Birmingham Repertory Theatre awarded £150,000 towards redeveloping front of house spaces, adding a dedicated entrance and creating new/enhanced café and bar

Hall for Cornwall Trust, Truro, awarded £150,000 as an additional grant towards the completion of the capital transformation following delays and increased costs caused by COVID-19

Coventry City of Culture Trust awarded £125,000 towards Coventry City of Culture 2021/22, towards the creative Commissions & Collaborations programme

The Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences, London, awarded £100,000 towards fresh air/air circulation systems to address COVID-safety guidelines

Help Musicians UK, London, awarded £100,000 towards the Help Musicians Hardship Funding Phase 3 to support freelance musicians experiencing financial hardship due to the pandemic

North Music Trust, Gateshead, awarded  £75,000 towards digital development of Sage Gateshead’s Music Education Centre, including equipment, online platform and learning content

Somerset House Trust, London, awarded £75,000 to support three Gallery 31 exhibition seasons and to replace failed CCTV in main gallery spaces

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation, awarded £150,000 to support ROH in filming and streaming live performances at ROH to widen access and generate income

Royal National Theatre, London, awarded £125,000 towards the cost of redeveloping the website

Donmar Warehouse Projects, London, awarded £100,000 towards the Donmar Warehouse’s essential capital works Website – Major Grants – Arts 01/12/2022 1 Organisation Name Town/City Grant Amount Project Title

The Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000, London, awarded £100,000 towards replacement of obsolete lighting infrastructure

Sunderland Music Arts and Culture Trust, Houghton Le Spring, awarded £100,000 towards phase two of the Fire Station project: the creation of a new mid-scale auditorium

Theatre Development Trust, London, awarded £100,000 towards emergency funding for UK freelance theatre artists during the Covid-19 pandemic

Sadler’s Wells Trust, London, awarded £75,000 to support a programme of work in 2020/21 to support freelance artists

The Gurkha Museum Trust, Winchester, awarded £150,000 towards Project Kaida to redevelop the museum including reinterpretation and redisplay of the collection to increase accessibility

Children’s Discovery Centre – East London, Stratford, awarded £75,000 towards capital improvements to the story centre

Watts Gallery Trust, Compton, awarded £75,000 towards essential environmental control systems upgrade for the Watts Gallery building

Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust, London, awarded £250,000 towards Nature + Love: a redevelopment of the Horniman Natural History Gallery and Gardens

Chiswick House and Gardens Trust, London, awarded £200,000 towards a major capital development – Cedar Yards Community and Creative Campus

Imperial War Museums, London, awarded £150,000 towards capital funding for new Art, Film and Photography Galleries at IWM London

Royal Hospital Chelsea Appeal, London, awarded £140,000 towards opening up the national heritage of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, home of the Chelsea Pensioners

The Guildhall School Trust, London, awarded £100,000 towards acoustic treatment of office spaces to create electronic and produced music training studios

Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society CIO, Sutton in Ashfield, awarded £100,000 towards construction costs for the science discovery centre and planetarium

Trent Park Museum Trust, Norfolk, awarded £100,000 toward the creation of a publicly-accessible museum within Trent Park House, Enfield

The University of Manchester awarded £100,000 towards Transforming Digital Access at Manchester Museum

The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, awarded £78,000 for the pilot year of new programme, the Shakespeare Curriculum up to autumn 2024

Anna Freud, London, awarded £75,000 to support additional clinical resource within the Pears Family School

Seamab, Kinross, awarded £75,000 towards new purpose built school for children coming to Seamab who have experienced abuse, trauma and neglect

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, awarded £300,000 in 2022 towards planning and preparation costs for the Library part of phase two of works to the Somerset House site (£100K) and £200K to support the library team and in particular the cataloguing of the Skelton special collection

Historic Royal Palaces, East Molesey, awarded £250,000 towards new building at Kensington Palace Orangery site, providing new learning space and commercial revenue with naming rights on the ‘Foyle Room’, as one of the learning rooms in the Clore Learning Centre

Hull Maritime Foundation awarded £250,000 towards fit out costs of the North End Ship Yard Education/Visitor Centre as part of the Hull Maritime project

Science Museum Group, London, awarded £250,000 towards Locomotion Building Two at the National Railway Museum site in Shildon, County Durham

Cathedral Church of St Peter in Exeter awarded £150,000 to create a Treasures Exhibition and new Interpretation scheme (with associated visitor access) at Exeter Cathedral, part of £7.5M capital project

The Garwood Foundation, Croydon, awarded £150,000 towards building of a new purpose-built Life Skills Centre for children and young adults with profound and multiple learning difficulties at the site of Rutherford School
St Bartholomew’s Heritage London £200,000 to support Sharing Historic Barts: the major project to restore and open up the historic North Wing for year-round public use by a wide range of audiences

Science Museum Group, London, awarded £150,000 as an additional contribution towards Locomotion Two at the National Railway Museum’s sister site in County Durham

The Friends of the Ipswich Museums awarded £75,000 to help restore and renovate Ipswich Museum – including a complete redisplay, improved access and a new dedicated learning suite

Glencoe Folk Museum awarded £75,000 towards capital redevelopment costs

The Handel House Trust, Mayfair, awarded  £75,000 towards the capital costs of the Hallelujah Project

Harmeny Education Trust, Balerno, awarded £75,000 towards new learning facilities to expand provision to include secondary age young people

World Monuments Fund Britain, London, awarded £75,000 towards third phase of works, a two-year conservation programme for the historic Stable Block of the Strata Florida Abbey, led by experts who will train and employ members of the community to complete the work

The Warburg Institute, University of London awarded £150,000 towards Warburg Renaissance: Transforming the Warburg Institute

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, awarded £125,000 towards consortium acquisition of Honresfield Library into public ownership, including significant historic literary manuscripts, letters and books

Lord Leycester’s Hospital, Warwick, awarded £100,000 towards the restoration of buildings, creation of dynamic exhibition spaces and a programme of outreach and education with their community

The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Trust awarded £100,000 towards Past Forward: Salisbury Museum for Future Generations

Royal Academy of Dance, London, awarded £75,000 towards the fit out of the new building in Battersea

St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation, London, awarded £75,000 towards the full-time one-year costs of the Object Conservator and Archivist

City & Guilds Art School Property Trust awarded £275,000 towards the Foyle Books & Paper Conservation Studios project to create and equip the new suite of conservation studios and facilities

The Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth, awarded £120,000 towards ‘1545 – When Their World Ended’ capital project, to refresh the Museum introduction in the first two galleries

The Book Trade Charity, Kings Langley, awarded £100,000 towards development of Bookbinders Cottages, London N20 to provide affordable housing, particularly for young entrants to the Book Trade from diverse backgrounds

Imperial War Museums, London, awarded £100,000 as a further contribution towards the 2nd phase of the “Transforming IWM London” masterplan creating new Second World War Galleries, Holocaust Galleries and two Learning Centres in response to the increased budget and difficulties caused by the pandemic

School of Oriental and African Studies, London, awarded £100,000 towards the creation of a Digitisation Hub and Collection Care Facility, transforming access to the research library