Fundraising and Development

Craig is a highly experienced and accomplished fundraiser & development manager, with over 20 years of experience in this field. Craig has worked with a wealth of leading trusts & foundations and private sponsors, personally raising over £900 000 for charitable causes and artistic projects. A number of projects Craig has worked on to date are outlined below, with additional information on many of these available in the projects section of this site here
Rhondda Arts Festival (RAFT)

Core Funding
£12 500
Pen Y Cymoedd Community Fund

£15 000
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council 

Rhondda Trust
​£15 000

£7 500
​Moondance Foundation

£1 500
​In It Together Fund
Lewis Merthyr Band

Core Funding & New Directions Project
£10 000
Welsh Government

£8 800
Arts Council of Wales
​Stabilisation Fund

£4 800
​Moondance Foundation

£10 000
Welsh Church Act Fund

£12 500
Arts Council of Wales
Cultural Recovery Fund
South Wales Miners Museum

Core Funding
£10 000
Welsh Government 
Cultural Recovery Fund
Treherbert & District Band

Core Funding

Youth Music Initiative
£10 000
Welsh Government

£3 630
Pen Y Cymoedd

£500
Ty Cerdd
Welsh Proms Cymru

Core Funding
£130 000
Welsh Assembly Government

£60 000
Private Sponsorship
Camerata Wales l Cymru

Penblwyddi / Anniversaries digital archive and live performance project
£30 000
Arts Council of Wales
Cory Academy

Youth brass & percussion initiative with the Cory Band
£90 000
Arts Council of Wales

£50 000
Additional Trusts & Foundations
Royal Welsh College of Music Drama Brass Band

Tour to Canada
£18 000


Private Sponsor
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain

New music commission from Paul Mealor, premiere performances conducted by Bramwell Tovey
£4 000

Performing Rights Society for Music Foundation

Music Centre Wales - Ty Cerdd

BIG Music Project hubs pilot
£3 000

Youth Cymru / Big Lottery Fund
Euphonium Soloist David Childs

"From Ophicleide to..." music and live electronics development project
£12 000

Creative Wales Awards
Making Music Wales

Music Partnership Forum Wales
£30 000

Arts Council of Wales
Rasputin, Ripples to Revolution

Musical theatre development project with Peter Karrie and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
£26 994

Arts Council of Wales - Theatre Development Fund
Welsh Brass Arts Festival

3 year festival of new music and innovative project based performances
£96 000

Arts Council of Wales - Festivals Fund
Mediterranean International Festival of Arts

Multiple genre international arts festival in Crete, Greece including the first concert performance of the Mozart opera Idomeneo, on the island upon which it is set
£80 000


Private sponsorship
Life Divine Heritage Project

Parc & Dare Band history, film and exhibition project
£49 900

Heritage Lottery Fund
The Bards of Wales

Concert Masters International orchestral commission from Sir Karl Jenkins

National Eisteddfod of Wales premiere performance
£40 000

Private Sponsorship
Electric Brass

Contemporary music and live electronics project with Catrin Finch & Steve Bingham
£15 000

Artworks Wales
PRSF
The Planets

Science and arts, visual imagery and live music education project with performances at the Park & Dare Theatre, UWIC and National Museum of Wales
£15 000

RCT Theatres
Hands On Science
University of Glamorgan
VE Day 60

VE Day 60th anniversary event with the Band of Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards
£10 000

Home Front Recall Programme
Brass Tracks

Film and live music project with performances in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Taliesin, Swansea; The Welfare, Ystradgynlais and De Montfort Hall, Leicester
£10 000

Sgrin Cymru
World Dances

Brass, Wind and World Percussion collaborative project and commission with performances in Birmingham, London and Rhondda Cynon Taf
£10 000

NSBA
PRSF
​RCT Theatres
The Red Lady of Paviland

Cross genre cantata and Welsh history commission for brass band, harp, mixed choir, children's chorus & tenor soloist
£6 000

Steps to New Music Award
PRSF
​Arts Council of Wales