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News for 2009 :: Babies Jaundice Incubator
Bradshaw Gass donated £2007.50 to purchase one phototherapy unit for The Royal Bolton Hospital. In addition that year we gave £2,750 to Birtenshaw Hall School towards a play area for children who suffer from physical and communication disabilities, £1,110 to Bolton Lads & Girls Club towards a Just4Girls Project . We also gave £8,000 to University Students studying Architecture and £4,000 to Senior School students intending to study Architecture at University..
February
2008 :: Moran Exhibition at Bolton Museum
From 9th February to the 3rd of May 2008 an exhibition showing newly acquired
prints of the work of a very talented artistic family from Bolton. The prints
were bought with the assistance of The Art Fund, the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant
Fund and the Bradshaw Gass Trust. BGT has helped the museum to acquire several
new artworks for the collection over the past few years.
December
2007
:: Bradshaw Gass Scholarship
A scholarship has been established with a bequest from the trustees of the Bradshaw
Gass Charitable Trust to the Manchester Society of Architects to fund a Scholarship
in Architecture in order to give an opportunity to members, as well as student
members, to make a full-time study of a subject of the applicant's choice.
February 2006 :: Gallery
restoration in the frame
Visitors to a Bolton art gallery will get the chance to see conservators at work
on the restoration and repair of two antique picture frames helped by funds from
Bradshaw Gass Trust. The work carried out at Bolton's Museum, Art Gallery and
Aquarium will begin this week and be complete in time for the gallery's reopening
on 4 March. The frames surround the Death of Seneca by Luca Giordano and George
Whitefield Preaching in Bolton by Thomas Walley.
December 2005 :: Spirit
of Sport
A donation from Bradshaw Gass Trust helped finance the Spirit of Sport public
arts piece for Bolton Metropolitan Council. Spirit of Sport is a giant monument
to 900 of Bolton's sporting enthusiasts and icons. Standing at 30m high, the
statue's 900 gleaming panels rise out of the ground to form a shimmering gold
trophy. Sited at the roundabout on De Havilland Way, Bolton, adjacent to Bolton
Wanderers Reebok Stadium close to the M61, the sculpture is an imposing and graceful
elliptical structure, which twists from base to top through 180 degrees.
March 2004 :: The Amarna
Princess
Bolton Museums, Art Gallery & Aquarium have succeeded in raising the funds
to purchase an important piece of Ancient Egyptian sculpture so that this can
remain in Britain and in particular so that it can be enjoyed by people in the
North West of England. Bradshaw Gass Charitable Trust generosity helped make
this possible.
October 2004 :: Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust
The Bradshaw Gass Trust recently donated a sum of money for artwork to help with the upgrade of the Maternity Corridor at the Royal Bolton Hospital. Says Mrs AJ Tilley, “On behalf of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, I would like to offer my most sincere thanks for these very generous donations”
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