Individual Giving

In honour of our 30th anniversary year, we are launching a fundraising campaign to help us grow and spread our mission for the next 30 years.

We have an ambitious season planned for 2025, including two festivals, and an archive project, in addition to our annual academies and bursary.

In our 30th Anniversary year, our goal is to raise £30,000 and we need your support.

Where will your money go?

The Academy

Support the delivery of our annual New Earth Academies and the development of further academies in more regions of the country

£10,000

Sponsor the delivery of one week of a New Earth Academy programme, providing intensive free training to a BESEA artist at the start of their career.

£300

Sponsor a theatre trip for an Academy class.

£1,000

Sponsor one place on a New Earth Academy course.

£300

Sponsor a taster workshop.

Artist Development

Support emerging BESEA artists by providing them with a transformational leg-up towards developing their own work.

£3,000

Sponsor a spot in our National Artist Development Incubator, which includes a seed commission and wraparound support.

£10,000

Sponsor a scratch night.

£300

Sponsor a masterclass

£0

Surgeries that are open to any BESEA artist

£200

Sponsor a 1-2-1 mentoring session for an artist/company (this can include script surgery, ACE Funding Application Feedback, etc).

£1000p/y

Sponsor a second bursary (must be ongoing)

£150

Sponsor one of our Monthly Artist Support

Community

Support us in furthering the reach of our work to a wider community.

£1,500/£1,000/£500

Sponsor a listening session, giving voice to BESEA communities around the country.

£2,000

Sponsor week-long residency in an under-resourced school.

£600

Sponsor one day of storytelling workshops for anunder resourced primary school

£200

Sponsor 10 tickets to our next show to a BESEA community group.

Production

Help us bring nuance BESEA representation to UK stages by supporting our theatre productions.

£10,000

Sponsor the commission of a new play by an industry-leading BESEA playwright, and be featured as the commissioning patron on all subsequent promotional materials associated with the production when it is produced and toured.

£1,500-£2,500

Sponsor one week of rehearsal space or one week of a theatre rental for an upcoming NET production.

£5,000-£10,000

Sponsor one week of Research & Development for a new production, giving the artist additional time and space to grow their work.

£20,000

Sponsor a playreading festival of new BESEA plays or a one week of production tour, bring more work to a wider audience

Archive Project

Support us in digitising and collating 30 years of New Earth Theatre’s work, so future audiences can learn the breadth and depth of our work.

£5,000

Sponsor the digitisation and cataloguing of all script submissions to Yellow Earth / New Earth between 1995-2025, making the history of BESEA playwriting accessible to the wider public, and being credited as Plays Archive Sponsor on the digital script database for perpetuity.

£300

Sponsor one video interview with founder of NET.

This is a sample of where your donation could go. If you would like to earmark your donation to a specific strand, please reach out.

Donate via Text

Alternatively, you can donate by text using the following codes. Texts cost the donation amount plus one standard rate message, UK networks only.

To donate £5, text NET30TH to 70970

To donate £10, text NET30TH to 70191

Please remember to Gift Aid your donation if you can.