Full list of grants recently awarded

• The Leeds Civic Trust towards a blue plaque to commemorate William Gascoigne, the inventor of the telescope sight and telescope micrometer.
• Support local workshops at the first Leeds Peacejam Conference.
• The Royal Armories Museum to support the provision of blinds for ‘The Mess’, a dedicated area for school lunches.
• Support for research associated with Rachel Reeves’s book Women in Westminster: MPs Who Changed Politics.
• Support for the 2018 Bradford Science Festival.
• The St Peter’s Singers to support a performance and recording of a new work, Penthos Requiem, commissioned by St Peter’s Singers from two of its members.
• Support the publication of a booklet on the history of the Leeds Pals Battalion written by Leeds Museums & Galleries volunteers.
• Front Room Productions’ to support 10 performances of an abridged and accessible promenade version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Home Farm, Temple Newsam.
• Support the performance of Cosi fan tutte at Sunnybank Mills, Farsley.
• Support MathsWorldUK”s production of a new exhibit to be used at science fairs around the UK.
• The Leeds Library to support the Through The Pages exhibition, part of the 250th Anniversary Programme of the library.
• Support for the 2018 Left Bank Opera Festival.
• Support for the design and layout of a book describing the history of Leeds Teaching Hospitals medical and surgical specialities over the last 250 years.
• Support the installation of 10 Leeds Little Free Libraries in areas of deprivation across the city.
• Support Whoever heard of a black artist?, an innovative form of participatory theatre exploring the historical-political context of black art.
• The Leeds Museums to support the articulation of a Long-finned Pilot Whale for display in the Leeds City Museum.
• Support Headingley Festival of Ideas.
• Support a performance piece based on the story of Antony Gormley’s discarded Brick Man statue.
• West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra to support a semi-staged production of Cavalleria Rusticana at Sunny Bank Mills.
• Support the orchestral premiere of Rudi Leavor’s Cantata ‘Enosh’ at Left Bank Leeds.
• The University of Leeds to support the public lecture by Nobel Laureate, Richard Henderson at the Astbury Conversation event in Leeds, March 2020.
• Support for The Leeds Opera Festival 2019.
• Moveable Feast Productions Ltd to support a picture book about the Drayman statue in Dortmund Square – a story by children from Beechwood Primary School in Seacroft.