Grant Beneficiaries and Stories
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.