Arts and Humanities Awards (December 2013)
Arts and Humanities Awards (December 2013)
The following grants were awarded by the Wolfson Foundation in December 2013.
For news of other grants awarded in December, please go to the relevant joint programme announcements, or to the funding pages of our other main grant areas, Science & Medicine, Health & Disability and Secondary Education. Grants are awarded in each area in June and December every year.
Museums and Galleries
National Gallery, WC2 (£250,000)
Refurbishment of the Wolfson Room
Durham Cathedral (£137,000)
Fit out of Collections Gallery
Charterhouse, EC1 (£68,000)
Conservation of Norfolk Cloister
Underfall Yard Trust, Bristol (£40,000)
Map display table in Visitor Centre
Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, Cheshire (£24,000)
Ground floor gallery display cases
Music & Performing Arts
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (£147,000)
Dressing rooms in refurbishment of Philharmonic Hall
Royal Court Theatre, SW1 (£80,000)
Lighting equipment
Sadler's Wells Theatre, N1 (£75,000)
New moving lights and colour changers
Birmingham Royal Ballet Trust (£50,000)
Audio-visual equipment
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (£50,000)
Audience and orchestral seating within the CBSO Centre
The Lowry, Salford (£42,000)
New lighting systems within Lyric and Quays Theatres
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (£15,000)
Rolling shelves in new music library
Eden Court, Inverness (£10,000)
New orchestra pit floor
Historic Buildings
Pitzhanger Manor Trust, W5 (£165,000)
Restoration of Small Drawing Room
Lauderdale House, N6 (£10,000)
Restoration work
St Francis Xavier RC Church, Hereford (£5000)
Restoration work
Higher Education
Wolfson College, Oxford (£1,250,000)
New library
University of Edinburgh (£200,000)
Redevelopment of St Cecilia's Hall
University of Leeds (£130,000)
Two named ground floor group rooms within new undergraduate library
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (£100,000)
Link building
London School of Economics, WC2 (£100,000)
New Women's Library
Goodenough College, WC1 (£45,000)
Refurbishment of library in London House