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Trusts and Foundations

Charitable trusts and foundation play a crucial role in funding our work. Helping us to maintain and upgrade our iconic building, nurture young talent and build Education and Borderlines community programmes – reaching out beyond the theatre to the most vulnerable and marginalised groups of people in our community.

Here are just a few areas of our work which can benefit from the support of trusts and foundations:

Talent Development

We’re committed to helping young people take their first steps towards a professional careers in the arts. From trainee directors, new writers and designers, we want to discover and support a new generation of theatre-makers.

Education

Practitioners work principally with formal education, carrying out interactive storytelling workshops for pre-school aged children, literacy initiatives with schools, professional development for teachers, youth theatre and drama groups. But also engaging, lifelong learning projects with older people – all with a focus on improving attainment, raising levels of aspiration and understanding the benefits that education brings.

Borderlines

Work with groups at risk of being marginalised – young people caught up in the criminal justice system, members of minority communities, adults with learning difficulties, looked-after children and young carers – using theatre to help individuals find new and positive ways to understand themselves, their communities and their responsibilities as citizens.

Capital Improvements

The New Vic was the first purpose built theatre-in-the-round in Europe and as such we have a responsibility for its upkeep and maintenance. Grants from trust and foundations will allow us to benefit from the latest improvements and keep facilities up-to-date.

If you are involved with a grant-making trust or foundation and think a partnership with the New Vic Theatre might be possible, we’d be happy to talk about our rewarding projects and programmes and the beneficiaries who would benefit from your support.

Please contact us at fundraising@newvictheatre.org.uk if you would like to discuss a project or visit the theatre to see our activities in action.

Thank you to the trusts and foundations that are currently supporting us:

Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
Anne Rylands Trust
Archer Trust
Arts for All
Backstage Trust
Baron Davenports Charity
BBC Children in Need
Big Lottery Fund
Cheshire Community Foundation
Denise Coates Foundation
Edward Cadbury Trust
Francis Winham Foundation
Garfield Weston Foundation
John Ellerman Foundation
John Thaw Foundation
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
Noel Coward Foundation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Ragdoll Foundation
Staffordshire Masonic Charitable Association
Staffordshire Community Foundation
Stoke-on-Trent City Council Community Festival and Event Fund
Strasser Foundation
William A Cadbury Charitable Trust
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust