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
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Pen Y Cymoedd
£9630 BID £8000 TOTAL £17630 |
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St Elvan's, Cynon Valley
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£10 000
National Lottery Heritage Fund £10 000 Purple Shoots £5 000 Our Aberdare BID TOTAL £25 000 |
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Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Cultural Recovery Funding |
£47 515
Arts Council of England UK Government, Department of Culture Media & Sport Cultural Recovery Round 2 £3 000 PRSF Women Make Music TOTAL £50 515 |
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Rhondda Arts Festival (RAFT)
Core Funding |
£12 500
Pen Y Cymoedd Community Fund £35 000 Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council Rhondda Trust £15 000 £7 500 Moondance Foundation £1 500 In It Together Fund £2000 Arts Council of Wales Sharing Together Fund £300 Covid Community Fund £3000 Wales Arts International International Opportunities Fund £5000 Colwinston Trust TOTAL £81 800 |
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Lewis Merthyr Band
Core Funding & New Directions Project |
£24 000
Welsh Government £8 800 Arts Council of Wales Stabilisation Fund £4 800 Moondance Foundation £9 720 Welsh Church Act Fund £12 500 Arts Council of Wales Cultural Recovery Fund £2000 Arts Council of Wales Sharing Together Fund £1500 Ty Cerdd | ACW Lottery Fund £300 Covid Community Fund £250 Interlink TOTAL £63 870 |
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Gwynfi Miners Community Hall
Gwynfi Heritage Trails |
£10 000
Heritage Lottery Fund £7 500 Welsh Government Cultural Recovery Fund TOTAL £17 500 |
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Llwydcoed Band
Core Funding |
£4000
Welsh Government £6500 Ty Cerdd | ACW Lottery Fund TOTAL £10 500 |
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South Wales Miners Museum
Core Funding |
£10 000
Welsh Government Cultural Recovery Fund |
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Treherbert & District Band
Core Funding Youth Music Initiative |
£23 000
Welsh Government £3 630 Pen Y Cymoedd TOTAL £26 630 |
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Welsh Proms Cymru
Core Funding |
£130 000
Welsh Assembly Government £60 000 Private Sponsorship |
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Camerata Wales l Cymru
Penblwyddi / Anniversaries digital archive and live performance project |
£30 000
Arts Council of Wales |
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Cory Academy
Youth brass & percussion initiative with the Cory Band |
£90 000
Arts Council of Wales £50 000 Additional Trusts & Foundations |
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Royal Welsh College of Music Drama Brass Band
Tour to Canada |
£18 000
Private Sponsor |
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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 |
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Music Centre Wales - Ty Cerdd
BIG Music Project hubs pilot |
£3 000
Youth Cymru / Big Lottery Fund |
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Euphonium Soloist David Childs
"From Ophicleide to..." music and live electronics development project |
£12 000
Creative Wales Awards |
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Making Music Wales
Music Partnership Forum Wales |
£30 000
Arts Council of Wales |
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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 |
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Welsh Brass Arts Festival
3 year festival of new music and innovative project based performances |
£96 000
Arts Council of Wales - Festivals Fund |
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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 |
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Life Divine Heritage Project
Parc & Dare Band history, film and exhibition project |
£49 900
Heritage Lottery Fund |
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The Bards of Wales
Concert Masters International orchestral commission from Sir Karl Jenkins National Eisteddfod of Wales premiere performance |
£40 000
Private Sponsorship |
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Electric Brass
Contemporary music and live electronics project with Catrin Finch & Steve Bingham |
£15 000
Artworks Wales PRSF |
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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 |
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VE Day 60
VE Day 60th anniversary event with the Band of Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards |
£10 000
Home Front Recall Programme |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |