Trusts & Grantmakers
Our work with young people, schools and colleges, and the local community costs hundreds of thousands of pounds every year. Support from our local boroughs is significant but minimal; we can only carry out this much needed work amongst some of London's most disadvantaged communities with the support of a range of courageous, forward-thinking Trusts & Foundations.
Trusts give to the Young Vic for any number of reasons.
Our free ticket schemes - to schoolchildren, young people, and local residents - represent potential Box Office losses of £250,000 every year. Trusts that help us recoup some of these costs ensure that we can continue to use the tickets to underpin the rest of our much-needed work with young people.
Our carefully developed work with young people aged between 7 and 21 runs alongside our productions and makes a real impact on their training and development. This might include holiday projects, parallel productions, the unique Schools' Theatre Festival, and projects created specifically for the interests of the group.
Our Two Boroughs project has worked recently with ex-sex workers, disabled groups, mental health groups. These projects were created with sensitive, flexible support of a number of charities who understand the value of gradually developed, organic projects that respond to the needs of these vulnerable and hardest to reach groups from our shared communities.
Our strong and increasingly popular careers and vocational training schemes with young and aspiring artists - directors, producers, actors, choreographers, technicians - have benefited from vital seed funders who saw the value of a deep, varied and long term programme.
Support for a young artist or the development of work supporting a new generation of theatre-makers. Without the room to play, experiment, and 'do', younger artists never get a foot on the ladder. We are delighted to be working with the many charities who have been as committed as we are to new directors, designers, actors...
'When David first approached Genesis just over three years ago to explain his vision for making the Young Vic the training school where directors could also get hands-on experience in a working theatre, it was not just that we realised the idea was timely and that there was a real need for such training, it was also that we recognised David's own energy, vision and deep commitment... Already the Genesis Directors Project is producing results on main stages of which we can all be proud.'
John Studzinski, Chairman, Genesis Foundation
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