The Panel for the Get The Chance, Impact Awards 2025, supported by Tempo Time Credits, Ffilm Cymru Wales and Porters Cardiff, met last week to decide the Long and Shortlist for this years awards. The Longlist is below and the shortlist will be revealed very soon!
The Shortlisted nominees will be invited to attend the live awards event at Porters, Cardiff on Saturday 22 March at Porters Cardiff 5-7pm.
Thanks to all of the members of the public that took time to nominate, it was great to see a range of cultural activity that reaches a broad range of the public and its positive impact on their quality of life.
Thanks to our panel for volunteering their time to support this inaugural Awards event. You can find out more about panel at the bottom of this page.
Category
Public Event
(Sponsored by Tanio)
The Posh Club/ Duckie and Common/Wealth/ Simon Casson, Dicky Eton and Chantal Williams
Grav – 10 year celebration/ Owen Thomas and Gareth John Bale
Balchder Wrecsam | Wrecsam Pride 2024/Kate Hutchinson, Rachel Allen, Megan Rosslyn, Rachel Jones, Sarah Fellows, Lesley Fellows, Aĺed Edwards, Steve Lewis, Nick Plummer-Johnson
Operation Julie Tour, Theatr na nÓg
Mae Gen Ti Ddreigiau/You’ve Got Dragons adapted by Manon Steffan Ros from the book by Kathryn Cave & Nick Maland/ Taking Flight Theatre Company
Our Christmas Lights/ The Cardiff Commitment Curriculum Team, Cardiff Commitment and the Cardiff University School of Architecture/ Kate Martin (The Curriculum Team) and the learners of St Cuthbert’s RC Primary School.
DUMPY BISCUIT, The Other Room
The Hold Up
Creative of the Year
(Sponsored by Porters Cardiff)
Steffan Donnelly, Theatr Cymru
Tobias Weatherburn
Bradley Rmer One, Yusuf Ismail and Shawqi Hasson, Unify Creative
Geinor Styles, Theatr na nÓg
Gavin Porter, Director
Suzie Larke, Visual Artist and Photographer
Community and Education Project
(Sponsored by The Red Shoes Poster Archive)
Olion Trilogy, Frân Wen
Tim Howe, Torch Theatr, Wind in the Willows
The Wallich, The Story Project
The Above And Beyond Project, Penrhys, National Dance Company Wales
CARAD (Community Arts Rhayader and District)
Sian Elin Williams (Participation Coordinator Theatr Cymru) and Konrad Suder Chatterjee (Communication Officer and Resource Developer Ashtar Theatre)/ Theatr Cymru/ ASHTAR Theatre x Theatr Cymru
Bethan England, CAST Performance Academy
People Speak Up, People Speak Up programme
The Arts Partnership, led by Dr Barbara Hughes-Moore – a collaboration between Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics, RWCMD (Communities and Engagement Division), Sherman Theatre, Hijinx, Company of Sirens and Omidaze
Tanio and Linc Cymru (now Pobl Group), What Once Stood
Rhiannon White, CommonWealth Theatre, We No Longer Talk
The Fight Company, Theatr na nÓg
Common Wealth Theatre, Take your Place
Little Gigs Bach, The Little Gigs Team and Cerdd CF, The Cardiff Commitment Curriculum Team
Nirushan Sudarsan, Grange Youth Forum
Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company with a focus on the regular Youth Theatre and their projects
Alan Whitfield, Disability Arts Cymru, National Visual Arts Officer
Facilitator of the Year
Alison McGann, Tanio, Breathing Space
Sara Sirati, Ardour Academy, Create & Connect
Steph Bailey Scott, Taking Flight Theatre Company, Taking Flight Youth Theatre/ You’ve Got Dragons/Introduction to working Inclusively/Deaf Awareness training
Naseem Syed, Ziba Creative, Radical Kindness.
Rabab Ghazoul, Gentle/ Radical, Take Your Place
Joanne Shackley, Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company, The Yfory Project
Culture and Health
(Sponsored by Christine O’Donnell)
Iola Ynyr, Nia Skyrme and the whole team of artists and project partners.Theatr Cymru, Ar Y Dibyn
The Good Vibrations Chorus, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
People Speak Up, Creative Home Delivery Service
Just Jump/ Y Naid, Theatr na nÓg
Sara Sirati and Anna Coviello, Ardour Academy LTD, Butterfly Soup
Learners from Ysgol Plasmawr, Cardiff West and the WNO,Ysgol Plasmawr, Cardiff West High School, WNO, Cofio (To remember)
Tanio, Breathing Space
Juls Benson
Queertawe artists, staff, partners and participants, Connect and Flourish project led by Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company in partnership with Bethan Marlow, Cerian Wilshire-Davies, Swansea Pride, Urban HQ, SwanScene and Swansea Bay Health Board, Queertawe and Queertawe Frinj,
Cultural Champion
(Sponsored by Tempo Time Credits)
Peter Mooney, Open Book
Debbie Webster, Theatr na nÓg, Chair of the Board
Sara Sirati, Ardour Academy
Jak Bjornstrom, Galwad & The Edit
Kami Lamakan, Chapter
Commitment to Arts, Heritage & Culture
(Sponsored by Awen Cultural Trust)
Samea Ahmed, Mount Stuart Primary School
Louise Williams, Cadoxton Primary School, Barry,
Vivienne Goodman, Drama and Theatre Studies, Tutor, Coleg Gwent
Ruth Wiltshire, Head Teacher, St. Paul’s Church in Wales, Primary School, Cardiff
Katherine Allen, Radyr Comprehensive School, Cardiff
Jennie Gough, Cardinal Newman R C, Comprehensive School, Pontypridd
Beth Bruma, Teacher of the Deaf, Llanishen High School
Disabled Creativity
Ashley Newsham, Impetus Dance
Taking Flight Theatre
Tafsila Khan, Blind Spot Consultancy
Alex Rees and Jane Latham, UCAN Productions
The Craidd Project
Anne Culver-House Evans – Resident Artist, Valleys Kids.
Samiya Houston, Trainee Workshop Practitioner, Blind Creative, UCAN/Get the Chance Member
The Get The Chance, Impact Awards Panel 2025.
Morgan Slate, Community & Partnership Manager, Tempo Time Credits
Kevin Johnson, Get the Chance Member
Hannah Goslin, PA & Administration Manager: Enterprises at National Theatre, Get The Chance Member
Gareth Williams, Get The Chance Member
Samiya Houston, Trainee Workshop Practitioner, Blind Creative, Get The Chance Member
Daisy Evans, freelance woodwind multi-instrumentalist, educator, event administrator and social media manager
Barrie Llewelyn, Senior Lecturer – English, Faculty of Business and Creative Industries Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, Humanities Research and Innovation Group, University of South Wales
Nicola Parsons, ACE Arts Project Coordinator