We are immensely grateful for the financial support we have received since 1993 from a range of Trusts and Foundations, Estates, Individual Donors and Legacy Gifts. This generosity has enabled us to continue awarding vital funding to individual artists across the UK at a pivotal moment in the development of their artistic practice.
Award Sponsors
-
The David Collins Foundation
The David Collins Foundation was set up in memory of the late designer David Collins to honour his legacy and celebrate his love of the Arts. Since its creation in 2016, the Foundation has partnered with the Arts Foundation to support artists across multiple disciplines.
-
The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund
The Maria Björnson Memorial fund supports the Arts Foundation Futures Awards with a focus on theatre-related artistic practices.
The fund was set up to honour the brilliant theatre, ballet and opera designer Maria Björnson who died in 2002. Her best known design was for the Phantom of the Opera for which she received a plethora of awards, although she designed for many other organisations including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet, Glyndebourne Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Sydney Opera, La Scala, in the West End and on Broadway. The fund also supports artistic enterprises, arts-related activities and individual artists in the UK.
-
The Yoma Sasburg Estate
Born in Amsterdam Yoma Sasburg was a professional ballet dancer. Sasburg later trained as a sculptor under David Weekes becoming a founder member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and was married to the prolific film composer Edward Clifton Parker.
Gifted by her daughter Roselyn in 2010, the Yoma Sasburg legacy has supported a variety of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards Fellowships for sculpture, installation art, live performance art and visual art, and will continue to fund a Arts Foundation Fellowship into the foreseeable future.
Patrons:
Kaveh and Cora Sheibani; Tracey and Nick Grace; Cecilia Morelli; Pierre Sapin and Sophie Dolan; Leila Rastegar; and Maria Vega.
Recent and Past Friends:
Antony Gormley; Tracey Emin CBE; Dorothy Bradburn; Grace Yu; Nancy Senior; Nona Ann White; Old Possum Trust; Po Shing Woo Charitable Foundation; Stephen Spender Memorial Trust; Valerie Eliot.
Recent and Previous Award Partners
- PRS Foundation supported the Producers of Live Music Award in 2016, Jazz Composition in 2017, Music for Change in 2022 and Jazz Composition in 2024.
- The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund supported the Theatre-Makers Award in 2021 & 2022 and Dance Theatre Award in 2023.
- The Cloth Workers’ Company, supported the Materials Innovation Award between 2014-2021 and a Designer-Makers Award in 2019.
- Lionel Bart Foundation supported a Theatre Award between 2012 and 2016, focusing on: Theatre for Children, Video and Digital for Theatre, Playwriting and Theatre Directing.