Project Funding 2024 / 2025
Gabrieli Roar (£2,000)
Granted to the Christmas Tour 2024, which gave school children from Norwich the opportunity to perform and sing in Norwich Cathedral in November.
Wolsey 550 Parade in Ipswich (£1,200)
Contribution to the fees of a Music Coordinator and a Banner Workshop leader.
The Garage (£3,000)
Granted to the Summer Project 2024 comprising rehearsals and a show based on the story of Dracula. The performance was of a high standard involving a large number of young participants including disadvantaged young people.
Frozen Light (£2,000)
Granted to the production The Ancient Oak of Baldur, especially designed for a severely disabled audience and shown in autumn 2024.
Total Ensemble (£3,000)
Funding for the project Equinox which consisted of three arts initiatives: Dance into the Fall, Ground Up & Grassroots and a series of dance and movement workshops in Great Yarmouth in autumn and spring 2024/5; and Move into the Spring, theatre, dance and music workshops leading to a performance in Gorleston at the end of March 2025.
Offshoot Foundation (£1,000)
Discretionary grant towards a film-making project which helped disadvantaged young people to create, script, perform and film.
The Common Lot (£2,500)
Support of a new inclusive approach to involving young people in community activities year-round. The Trust was particularly interested in the new climate change community theatre project.
National Theatre Connections (£2,000)
Granted to their partnership with The Garage to enable 240 young people to prepare and stage a play, scripts provided by NT Connections, performed in spring 2025.
Norfolk County Music Festival 2025 (£2,400)
Funds to enable eight schools to participate in the 100th anniversary music celebration. They particularly involved more SEND children in the composition and performance of the celebration music pieces.
Ink Festival (£2,000)
Funding to support their Youth Programme as part of a five-day Arts Festival in Halesworth.
Jubilee Opera (£2,000)
Funding for two productions staged in autumn 2024: Two Tales and The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Triorca 2025 (£2,000)
Support of this three-country international collaborative youth orchestral event which celebrates the twinning of Norwich, Novi Sad and Koblenz. Due to difficulties in Serbia it took place in Rouen in 2025.
Spinning Wheel Theatre (£2,000)
Granted towards a project with eight new graduate creatives based in East Anglia to provide workshops in Early Years settings. As they did not achieve all the necessary funding the project was revised and our funding re-routed to Colab East 25 project Let’s Make More History, in King’s Lynn and Thetford.
Britten Pears Arts (£2,000)
Funds to support of their annual Celebration of Suffolk Schools Music which took place in July with 21 primary schools, eight secondary schools and five community groups. £2000 – granted towards Group A, a project for young people from Leiston which offers year-round workshops, rehearsals and performances, culminating in a performance at the First Light Festival 2025.
