Opportunities Bulletin June 2023
All Wales:
The Aloud Charity
The Institute of Arts & Ideas
Wales Arts Health & Well-being Network
North Wales:
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
North Wales International Music Festival
Ruthin Craft Centre
studioMADE
Theatr Clwyd
Mid Wales:
Black Mountains Comedy Festival
South Wales:
Anthem
Capital
Cardiff & Vale Health Charity
Fio
National Youth Arts Wales
Trac Cymru
Truth Department
Wales Millennium Centre
The Aloud Charity changes the lives of young people across Wales using the power of group singing.
The Only Kids Aloud Chorus is a pan-Wales choir of 80 primary-school aged children. It runs annually using a residential model. With no national children’s choir in Wales, the OKA Chorus provides an opportunity for aspiring young singers to shine.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an organisation to take exclusive or shared sponsorship of the OKA choir.
The timescale of this sponsorship is September 2023 – December 2024. Aloud is interested in a long-term relationship with a partner – not just a financial commitment.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
The Institute of Art and Ideas has a mission to transform the intellectual landscape of the UK. It creates spaces where original and challenging ideas can flourish by bringing together the world’s leading thinkers to take part in its interdisciplinary debates and talks.
A partnership with The Institute of Art and Ideas offers unparalleled opportunities to showcase your brand and thought leadership to our highly engaged audiences, whilst creating new connections at networking events with industry leaders, public intellectuals, politicians and journalists. Its twice-yearly festival HowTheLightGetsIn takes place in Hay-on-Wye in May and London in September, offering a physical venue in which to engage with its speakers and audience members.
Partnerships are possible for 2023 and beyond.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
WAHWN is the national sector support organisation for arts and health with over 700 arts and health professional members.
Opportunity to be the sole sponsor of the first Wales arts and mental health inequalities conference at the Lysaght Institute, Newport on 4 October 2023, in partnership with Aneurin
Bevan University Health Board.
Keynote speakers include the Deputy Minister for Mental Health & Wellbeing, Lord Howarth of Newport and Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden. Up to 150 arts and health professionals will come together to connect, share, inspire and influence over a whole day, exploring creative solutions to mental health challenges in Wales.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod returns from 4-9 July 2023, for its first full-length festival since the pandemic. The Eisteddfod has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and past performers include Luciano Pavarotti, Shirley Bassey and The Manic Street Preachers.
Opportunities available include evening concert sponsorship, naming rights for outside stages and the annual Parade which attracts over 10,000 people to Llangollen. Also, on offer is support of competition prizes, talks and language strands, an annual inclusion project, and the chance to be involved with a number of large-scale future commissions with significant community impact.
The timescale of this opportunity is March – July 2023.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
North Wales International Music Festival is a classical music festival which also features genres such as jazz and folk, as well as performances combining music with other art forms. Many events feature diverse artists of international renown, others give opportunities to younger performers or are community based. With the theme of ‘Horizons’ we look to the future after celebrating our 50th Anniversary. 
Sponsorship options include concerts, outreach projects and our community tour. Bespoke packages can be tailored to promote business requirements.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Ruthin Craft Centre — celebrating craft and the art of making by presenting the very best Contemporary Craft from Wales, the UK and Internationally.
The aim of this programme is to support families in rural Denbighshire communities by using craft, nature and heritage as a collaboration for mindfulness and well-being, social engagement, biodiversity and conservation awareness and ancestral connections. This will be done through a series of creative art sessions, fieldwork and events inspired by the local landscape involving makers, artists, ecologists, and archaeologists.
This sponsorship will help to provide transport for families and individuals living in rural Denbighshire, so they are able to attend these events and workshops. The sponsorship will also help to cover artist and assistant costs for a period of 6 sessions.
The project will run throughout July and August, with a possible collaborative installation of crafted works and an event held at the end of August.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
studioMADE is an artist-led studio, gallery and co-working space located in the historic Carriageworks in Denbigh.
Starting at the end of March, the gallery will curate and host a year – long environmental futures programme for the local community. It will integrate high quality speakers sharing specialist knowledge of community owned energy, as well as creative workshops and discussions. Working on a grassroots level, studioMADE is establishing a programme of activity, working with national organisations, and bringing the conversations to Denbigh. It is its mission to be as inclusive and accessible as possible. The timescale of this opportunity is March 2023 – March 2024.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Theatr Clwyd is Wales’ leading producing theatre and regional arts centre. It reaches over 300,000 people a year through a combination of world-class work on stage and award-winning community engagement projects.
The Great Gatsby Press Night, a one-off opportunity to sponsor the press night of a highly successful Theatr Clwyd adaption of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal tale.
This press night opportunity is on Wed 21st June 2023.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Theatr Clwyd has also launched a brand new membership scheme to offer you incredible benefits that will entertain your current clients, potential clients and your staff right on your doorstep.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
The Black Mountains Comedy Festival is a vibrant cultural event in the foothills of the Black Mountains. Kiri Prichard-McLean and Gary Delaney join Mark Watson, Rich Hall and Zoe Lyons in our hall of fame to help cement its place as the biggest and best comedy festival in South Wales.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Anthem is creating a Wales in which music can empower every young life. They enable vital access to music for young people aged 0-25 from all different backgrounds, generating opportunities across genres and communities, and nurturing diverse talent to take the next steps to musical careers.
Anthem is looking for a sponsor for their next Amplify Podcast, a 3-episode series focussed on exploring music in the Welsh language and its impact on the younger generation. This is a great opportunity to align with a project that will explore the cultural importance of the Welsh language via a creative platform.
The timescale is an August/September creation and Autumn release.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Capital Youth Music engages young people from diverse communities across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. It is run by musicians, teachers, parents, and young people, providing musical opportunities post-Covid. 
Concert in the prestigious Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Monday 17 July 2023, 7.30 pm.
Capital has partnered with Glamorgan Music School, Barry and the Vale of Glamorgan, for this event and we are seeking financial support to contribute to the concert cost.
This sponsorship opportunity runs from 1 April 2023 – 17 July 2023.
The Arts for Health and Wellbeing Programme at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board supports a variety of creative projects across a range of artistic mediums for staff, patients, and service users. It is proactive in using art to improve health and wellbeing and aims to be inclusive and representative of its community.
The Health Board is working with partners to establish an innovative project at its Llandough site – Our Health Meadow. It is believed to be the first of its kind at a hospital site in the UK, its goal is to establish an ecological community health park which benefits wildlife, plants and people through positive human environment interaction; it has used an eclectic and ambitious art strategy to acknowledge and enhance the experiences of all who enter the site; a key element of this is a sculpture trail which will act as a walkway through open air galleries of outdoor sculptures.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Our vision is that Global Majority people are embedded and thriving in all aspects of theatre and arts in Wales. We remove barriers and offer inclusive, intersectional visions for the future.Fio’s Creative Associate programme provides creative professional development for 4 Welsh Global Majority early-career creatives across 12 months. For sponsorship of £3,000 per Creative Associate, the individual will receive paid time to develop their own creative project, mentorship, networking opportunities, shadowing and assistant opportunities on Fio projects, and access to equipment and resources that will allow them to develop their individual professional creative skillset, e.g writing, directing, illustration and more.
Prichard-Jones Hall (Bangor).
Truth Department produces memorable, cinematic films for worldwide distribution on all platforms. Working with emerging Welsh talent and established international directors.
Lolfa Truth Department
During the pandemic, Truth Department renovated a long-abandoned shop in Llantrisant to use as its production office. Now back in use, it plans to adapt the space to make it safe, suitable and comfortable for small arts and cultural groups to use in the evenings and on weekends. Founder Sponsors will contribute to the cost of stowable desks and furniture, screening equipment, a safety handrail to the toilet and a sound-proof shop window and door, web-based bookings, etc.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
Wales Millennium Centre is the national arts centre for Wales.
Dros Nos is its annual sleepover event taking place in the autumn for young people aged 16 – 25 from across south Wales. They have access to workshops, open mic sessions, our digital experiences, free tickets to see an in-house production, meet the people whose story inspired the production and get to sleep in its iconic building. The event is targeted at young people who have less opportunities to access the arts and aims to improve their confidence and skills.
For further information, including the benefits package and price, please click here.
