Arts & Business Cymru Awards 2025
The 30th A&B Cymru Awards Ceremony & Dinner will take place at ICC Wales on Thursday 19 June 2025.
Nineteen businesses and their arts partners have made it onto the 2025 A&B Cymru Awards shortlist. The ceremony, now in its 30th year, recognises excellence in creative partnerships between the two sectors.
Companies of all sizes, based across the whole of Wales, compete to win the prestigious awards. From Housing Associations to law firms, the shortlist represents the many far-reaching ways businesses of all sizes across Wales work with the arts to achieve tangible goals.
The full shortlist is available below.
Winners will be revealed at the black-tie dinner and ceremony held at ICC Wales on Thursday 19 June, when the recipients of the Business of the Year, the Robert Maskrey Award for Arts Philanthropy, the Hodge Foundation Arts Award and the Nicola Heywood Thomas Arts Prize will also be announced.
The priority booking period for tickets and advertising opens on Monday 14 April. For further information, please e-mail contactus@aandbcymru.org.uk or telephone 029 2030 3023.
The A&B Cymru Awards is made possible by a range of key A&B Cymru partners. The flagship event is sponsored for the first time by Cardiff’s longest-established independent estate agents, Hern & Crabtree, which heads an impressive list of supporters.
The category partners in 2025 are Bluestone Wales, Cartrefi Conwy, Grant Stephens Family Law, Sony UK Technology Centre, The Waterloo Foundation and Wales & West Utilities.
A&B Cymru also works with a range of event partners to ensure the success of the evening. They are Entertainment Sponsor, University of South Wales, Media Partner Orchard, Design Partner Ubiquity, Hotel Partner Park Plaza Cardiff, Transport Partners FlightLink Wales and Intercity Removals, as well as Drinks Partners Barti, Penderyn Distillery and Ty Nant.
Adviser of the Year Award, sponsored by Grant Stephens Family Law
Finalist: Giovanni Basiletti, Burges Salmon LLP & National Dance Company Wales
Finalist: Yeota Imam-Rashid, Freelance Consultant & Theatr na nÓg
Finalist: Jonathan Chitty, Port of Milford Haven & SPAN Arts
Finalist: Sian Humpherson, Snowdonia Hospitality & Leisure & Dance Collective
Arts, Business & the Community, sponsored by Wales & West Utilities
Finalist: Bad Wolf & The Other Room Theatre
Finalist: Pendine Park Care Organisation & North Wales International Music Festival
Finalist: Port of Milford Haven & Torch Theatre
Arts, Business & Diversity, sponsored by Sony
Finalist: First Choice Housing Association & Gig Buddies Cymru
Finalist: Grant Stephens Family Law & Hijinx
Finalist: The Queer Emporium & Menter Caerffili
Arts, Business & Employees
Finalist: Association of Directors of Social Services Cymru & Hijinx
Finalist: Cloth Cat & Cardiff Animation Festival
Finalist: Grant Stephens Family Law & Act Now Creative Training
Arts, Business & the Environment, sponsored by Bluestone Wales & The Waterloo Foundation
Finalist: Bute Energy & Literature Wales
Finalist: Cartrefi Conwy & Benjamin C Dearnley
Finalist: Linc Cymru & Tanio
Arts, Business & Health, sponsored by Cartrefi Conwy
Finalist: Cerebra & Swansea Carers Centre & Grand Ambition
Finalist: Rubicon Facilities Management Ltd & Rubicon Dance
Finalist: RWE Renewables Swindon & Dance Collective
The 2025 Judges are drawn from a range of sectors and have expertise in practical art forms, sponsorship and the aims of the private sector.
The individuals who took on the considerable task of judging the business partnership categories are BAFTA winning Actor & Producer Rakie Ayola; Hern & Crabtree’s Company Director, Mike Baillie; Business Psychologist & Director of Bowen Hopkins, Lorraine Hopkins and Giles McNamara, Bluestone Wales’ Finance Director.
The Adviser of the Year was judged by three key supporters of A&B Cymru’s Professional Development Programmes. They are Director of Data and Operations at Go.Compare, Hoodi Ansari; Former Artistic Director of North Wales International Music Festival, Mezzo Soprano Ann Atkinson and Grant Stephens, Managing Director of Grant Stephens Family Law.
The winners of the 2025 Awards will once again receive trophies specially commissioned for the ceremony. They will be designed and made by West Wales-based blacksmith, installation artist and sculptor Angharad Pearce Jones. She will use the last ever sheet of virgin Welsh steel from Tata Steel’s blast furnace in Port Talbot to create the unique pieces. They will celebrate the simplicity of the steel plate, while representing the seeds of change, the growth of green enterprise and the creative arts.
Tickets for the Best Welsh Experiences Raffle are now on sale. Tickets cost £5 and proceeds will fund projects which engage underrepresented communities with the arts. Should you be interested in purchasing tickets, please e-mail contactus@aandbcymru.org.uk
