We gratefully acknowledge our founding partners:
Major Funders
We extend special thanks to the following current supporters.
Stepping Into Dragon Hall Funders (2022 – 2024)
A physical and digital capital project, alongside community engagement activities, to open up Dragon Hall to increased, and more diverse, visitors, participants and volunteers.
- Arts Council England
- Geoffrey Watling Charity
- National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Norwich Freemen’s Charity
- The Wolfson Foundation
alongside
- 2016 Anne French Memorial Trust
- Lady Hind Trust
- Timothy Colman Trust
- Norwich City Council
- UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (part funded)
- And those who wish to remain anonymous
Capital Funders (2015 – 2018)
Thank you to our major capital funders who generously supported the transformation from Writers’ Centre Norwich to the National Centre for Writing.
- FCC Communities Foundation
- The Fidelity UK Foundation
- The Foyle Foundation
- Garfield Weston Foundation
- The Geoffrey Watling Charity
- New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership
- The Norwich Freemen’s Charity
- The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
- Wolfson Foundation
Programme Funders
The artistic and outreach programmes which are delivered on a local, national and international scale would not be possible without our generous funders, past and present. Thank you.
- Audrey Muriel Stratford Charitable Trust
- Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society
- Amazon Literary Partnership
- Anguish’s Educational Foundation
- Arts Council England
- Arts Council Korea
- Arts Society Charity Grants
- The Bacon Charitable Trust
- British Council
- Bulgarian Embassy
- Card Factory Foundation
- City Fibre Community Fund
- Creative Scotland
- Danish Arts Foundation
- Deborah Rogers Foundation
- The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
- The Desmond Elliott Trust
- Dutch Foundation for Literature
- East of England Co-Op Community Cares Fund
- Educational Foundation of Alderman John Norman
- Elizabeth Kostova Foundation
- FarLit
- Fenton Arts Trust
- Flanders Literature
- The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust
- Garrick Charitable Trust
- The Geoffrey Watling Charity
- Golsoncott Foundation
- The Great British Sasakawa Foundation
- Harvill Secker
- Hawthornden Foundation
- Hypercharged Foundation
- Institut français
- Italian Cultural Institute
- Jan Michalski Foundation
- John & Pamela Salter Charitable Trust
- Laura Kinsella Foundation
- The Linbury Trust
- Literature Translation Institute of Korea
- Literature Wales
- Lithuanian Cultural Embassy
- Lithuanian Culture Institute
- The Martineau Society
- The Mercers’ Company
- National Arts Council Singapore
- Norfolk County Council
- Norfolk Community Foundation
- Norwegian Literature Abroad
- Norwich Business Improvement District
- Norwich City Council
- OneStop Community Foundation
- The Norwich Freemen’s Charity
- The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust
- PEACH: West Norfolk Partnership Fund
- Polish Cultural Institute
- Pro-Helvetia
- Royal Norwegian Embassy
- Russian Institute for Literary Translation
- Simon Gibson Charitable Trust
- Suffolk County Council
- Sylvia Waddilove Foundation
- Trinity College: Arts Award Access Fund
- University of East Anglia
- Welsh Literature Exchange
- West Norfolk Lives Trust
Individuals
We are grateful for the ongoing generosity of our NCW Supporters’ Circle members:
- Briony Bax
- Laura McGillivray
- John McGregor
- Sarah Passingham and the Passingham Family
- Martin Pick
- Jane and David Steward
- Peter Wilson
- And those who wish to remain anonymous.
Finally, we wish to acknowledge the support of our NCW Society Members, and the passionate advocacy of NCW Alumni.
Contact Us
If you wish to talk to a member of our team about supporting NCW, or learn more about the difference your support makes to writers, translators and our communities, we would love to hear from you.
Please contact Dan Scales, Development Manager, [email protected].
The National Centre for Writing strives for best practice in its fundraising and is registered with the Fundraising Regulator.
We are transparent with our donors and supporters, and strive to ensure that our fundraising is legal, open, honest, and respectful.