Trusts & Foundations
Through the incredible generosity of our funders, BAC can continue to create more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable futures for individuals and communities.
Every year we raise funds from a number of Trusts and Foundations to support our wide range of activities at Battersea Arts Centre. We are immensely grateful to these Trusts and Foundations who are supporting BAC’s mission as a Home for the Extraordinary.
If you would like to find out more about how we work with Trusts and Foundations, please get in touch with Miran Hadžić, Senior Grants Manager, at miranh@bac.org.uk.
Here are three Trust and Foundation supporters of BAC and how they are working with us to make meaningful change – locally, nationally, and internationally.
Battersea United Charities is a grant-making charity with a long history of philanthropy for over 380 years serving the people of the Battersea area, funding local organisations and projects that support the community in line with the charity’s objectives.
For BAC, this involves the delivery of our Christmas Day Lunch, in which local members of the community are invited to join our festive celebrations and enjoy a Christmas lunch in our Grand Hall. Battersea United Charities’ grant enables BAC to not only provide a festive Christmas to community members who may otherwise be alone at the holidays, but also transport to and from the event, and fun activities including live music and a visiting Santa.
Cockayne is a US based foundation, which seeks to support innovative arts programmes to provide life-enriching experiences. It supports the arts in London through a donor advised fund, Cockayne Grants for the arts, currently held at The London Community Foundation. 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of The Cockayne Foundation, which they are celebrating in London with 10 special Anniversary Grants.
BAC is thrilled to be one of 10 recipients of these grants and excited to launch our Cockayne Commissions, which will support a wide range of small and major commissioned work over the next two years, continuing our legacy as a space for extraordinary artists to create bold and radical new works.
Theatres Trust is the national advice and advocacy body for the UK’s theatres supporting all forms of theatres. The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity with a focus on research and education. Its aim is to support civil society by investing in excellent projects in science, health, heritage, humanities and arts. Theatres Trust’s Theatre Improvement Scheme, in association with the Wolfson Foundation, offers capital funding for theatres. The theme for the fund for the current three-year partnership is Improving Environmental Sustainability.
In 2024, BAC was in receipt of a grant from the Theatre Improvement Scheme to radically improve our Building Management System (BMS), which is how we monitor and track energy consumption across our Victorian Town Hall building. With this grant we have been able to reduce unnecessary heat production as well as gain a more detailed understanding of the energy usage of activities, increasing our building coverage from 50% to 90%. We are now able to control heating, electricity and lighting remotely. We are now beginning the process of understanding how we can use this data to drive our decision-making around our live programme, our Next Gen programmes and our commercial hires.
https://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/how-we-help/grants-funding/theatre-improvement-scheme