Thank you to Arts Council England for awarding us three-year funding, retaining our status as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).
Applications for the 2023-26 portfolio have been highly competitive and we are delighted to be able to continue our work in the theatre and community, supporting ACE’s strategy Let’s Create and helping to deliver its Outcomes and Investment Principles.
According to Arts Council England, this is its most varied and ambitious portfolio yet, supporting the delivery of the very best art and culture available into people’s neighbourhoods and boosting spending in arts, museums where investment is currently too low.
As many of you will know, we first became an NPO in 2018 and work tirelessly to promote the transformative potential of full mask theatre across the globe. Continued NPO status will allow us to carry on our work effectively, both through our performances and our learning and health-based work, which reaches a wide range of participants, including care home residents, people living with dementia, hospice patients, young people with special educational needs, early-career artists, and the deaf community.
Our Artistc Director, Rachael Savage, commented, “We are thrilled to bits to remain part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio and are excited about an ambitious three years ahead in line with ACE’s brave Let’s Create policy to make exceptional art for everyone, and mean it. The headlines of our plan involve work and participation made with and for people of all ages, including those often without a voice whether they are living in late-stage dementia or with learning disabilities or people who are deaf or hard of hearing. We will work hard to deliver our mission to transform lives through the empathy and connection of full mask theatre. Thank you, ACE, for believing in the value of our work."