Funding an arts venue is a balancing act across grant funding, generated income and community support including donations, sponsors and advertising. It is vital we keep maintain a good variety and do not become reliant on any one of these, but look to grow and strengthen them all equally. Like all arts venues, we are incredibly grateful for all the support we receive to enable us to deliver a quality arts experience for both our district and all visitors to the area.
Funders
Without grant funding it would be impossible to deliver the arts centre. We work hard to have a diverse funding portfolio, including both core and project based funding. Core funding is a more general type of funding that supports delivery of all activities across the arts centre, whilst project funding is restricted to the activities agreed in advance with the funder for a specific project.
Core funding
We work closely with our core funder, Canterbury City Council, to ensure we are delivery a quality arts experience for the Canterbury district.
Project funding
Project funding from National Lottery Community Fund has eabled our Silver Screenings project. The Arts Council England and DCMS Culture Recovery Fund #HereForCulture has supported our survival through the Covid-19 pandemic. Henry Smith Foundation have funded our Young Digital Makers 2020 programme (now taking place in 2021).
Kent Community Foundation funding is supporting our Young Makers Club and strategic recovery work.
Build a Rainbow was supported by the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Sponsors and Supporters
We are incredibly lucky to have a broad range of supporters across the range of activities we offer.
BestFRIENDS
We rely on our Friends to allow us to carry out all the day-to-day work and ensure the centre stays accessible to all, we thank every single Friend and Great Friend. We are also very fortunate to have Best Friends who would like to say a big thank you to:
Kevin Falconer
Josephine Harvatt
Philippa Langton
John Nurden
Catherine O'Rourke
Mick O’Reilly
Jane Webb
Advertisers
The only way we can provide a printed brochure every quarter is thanks to the organisations that have chosen to place an advert in it. Please support our advertisers where you can and pick up a copy of our brochure at the centre or download one from here.
Donations and donors
We work really hard to earn our income and run projects that are grant funded, but to ensure we can continue to provide all of our activities at excellent value and as accessible to as many of our community as possible, we do rely on the generous donations we receive from all our visitors and supporting organisations.
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