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Grants awarded in 2020 included the following:

198 Contemporary Arts & Learning
Creating a Legacy - The 198 Archive Space – funds towards the fit-out of the archive and gallery space in the new capital project building

Camden People’s Theatre
Capital Development Campaign undertaken during pandemic lockdown

Peckham Platform
Everyone's Platform capital project

Stanley Halls
Infrastructure Investment for Performance Project - undertaken during pandemic lockdown

World Heart Beat Music Academy
World Heart Beat at Embassy Gardens: grant towards new concert hall

Amina Khayyam Dance Company
‘Bibi Rikuya’s Reckless daughter’ - new commission to premiere at Riverside Studios (venue tbc)

Candoco Dance Company
Candoco's postponed 30th Anniversary Season: Support returned to reworking of Rosas/Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Drumming set to iconic score by Steve Reich, Sadler’s Wells

Russell Maliphant Dance Company
New commission, ‘Vortex’ - London premiere Sadler’s Wells

Seeta Patel Dance Company
Bharatanatyam interpretation of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ in collaboration with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Sadler’s Wells

Yorke Dance Project
PAST PRESENT: Connecting to Cohan - Linbury Theatre

Apples and Snakes
CeCe's Spoken Word Speakeasy - The Albany, Deptford

CLOD Ensemble and Manchester Collective
25th Anniversary Production, This is My Room: an invitation to collectively contemplate public and private spaces - Rose Lipman Building, Hackney

English PEN
‘Common Currency’: series of new commission & literature festival at South Bank Centre to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of English PEN

Ministry of Stories
Poetry in Unexpected Places - Hoxton

The Place
Richard Alston Commemorative Book & Archiving project

Spread the Word
City of Stories Home: creative writing programme run in library services across the capital and delivered by Spread the Word

Barbican Centre
Barbican Reopening: series of 6 live, socially distanced, concerts, also simultaneously streamed live

Conway Hall Ethical Society
Relaunch of Conway Hall live Sunday Concerts and Clements Chamber Composition Prize

Grand Union Music Theatre
40th anniversary weekend, Hackney Empire

London Sinfonietta
‘Houses Slide’ new commission by Laura Bowler, Royal Festival Hall

Wigmore Hall
Celebration of Morton Feldman by Apartment House: 3 concerts

English National Opera
Support for diverse casting and for diverse/young additional instrumentalists for ENO’s new production of Wagner’s ‘The Valkyrie’, directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Martyn Brabbins

Orpheus Sinfonia
Re-interpretation of Wagner’s Die Walküre using the chamber score of Jonathan Dove - part of Arcola’s Grimeborn Festival

Royal Opera House
Support towards delayed London production costs of ‘Innocence’, new commission by Saariaho

Boundless Theatre
Delayed London premiere of ‘Addictive Beat’ by Dawn King

Bush Theatre
Delayed London premiere of ‘Red Pitch’ by Tyrell Williams

Curious Directive
Delayed London premiere of ‘Deciphering’ new devised production, New Diorama Theatre

Donmar Warehouse
Grant towards delayed London premiere of ‘Force Majeure’, Tim Price’s adaptation of Ruben Östlund’s film

Greenwich and Docklands Festival
Support towards 2 productions in reopening Festival:
1. ‘Family Tree’ by Mojisola Adebayo, co-production by Actors Touring Company, the Young Vic and GDF - promenade performance around the grounds of Charlton House
2.‘Blue remembered Hills’ a reinterpretation of the play by Denis Potter by Flemish theatre company De Roovers - outdoor performance on the Thamesmead waterfront

Kiln Theatre
New commission: ‘NW Trilogy’ by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams

New Diorama Theatre
Delayed live 10th Anniversary Season

Outside Edge Theatre Company
Script Commissions leading to 2 full productions of work by playwrights with lived experience of Addiction and Recovery:
1. Jane Bodie’s ‘Barefaced’, Chelsea Theatre
2. Tbc

Unicorn Theatre
Re-interpretation of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Lulu Raczka and directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart

Yard Theatre
New Director’s Lab at The Yard 2020 providing support to aspiring directors during the pandemic, culminating in performance-sharing with general public

Chisenhale Gallery
Abbas Akhavan ‘curtain call, variations on a folly’

Hayward Gallery
Grant towards 2 future exhibitions:
1. Matthew Barney: Redoubt - reopening show
2. ‘In the Black Fantastic’: an exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora

Photographers’ Gallery
Support for retrospective of Welsh photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths (1936 - 2008) - pending

Royal Academy of Arts
Milton Avery exhibition

Somerset House Trust
‘The Arks of Gimokudan’, Earth Day commission for courtyard of Somerset House by Leeroy New

Studio Voltaire
Re-opening year of exhibitions Autumn 2021 onwards:
1. William Scott
2. Every Ocean Hughes
3. Maeve Gilmour
4. Huw Lemmey and Onyeka Igwe

Victoria and Albert Museum
‘Epic Iran’ reopening exhibition

Whitechapel Art Gallery
‘Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon’ exhibition