At our most recent meeting, we were delighted to select another round of inspiring projects to support. We’re excited to share more details with you soon! Until then, we wish you all a joyful and prosperous New Year!

Sending warm Christmas wishes to all our followers, from the Victoria Wood Foundation! 🎄✨

We’re also excited to announce that we will be supporting @WaterspriteFilm Festival in 2025. As the world’s largest student film festival, Watersprite creates opportunities for young people and emerging filmmakers to come together and celebrate their work.

In addition, we were thrilled to once again sponsor a prize at the prestigious Edinburgh @ComedyAwards, continuing our commitment to celebrating and supporting exceptional comedic talent.

In 2024, we were delighted to support the inaugural @BirminghamRep Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize for Comedy - the first ever major playwriting prize dedicated to the art of Comedy! Huge congratulations to the winner, Eugene O’Hare!

As 2024 ends, we're reflecting on another incredible year. We’ve had the privilege of supporting some remarkable charities, from music workshops to circus programs to reading initiatives. We’re proud to keep Victoria’s legacy alive by championing creativity and the arts✨

We’re proud to support @FluteTheatre which brings unique adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays to young people with autism, and their families. Our funding will support one week of specialised performances for the pupils of Virginia Primary School in Tower Hamlets.

We’re pleased to support @lakesmusic’s School and Family Outreach Projects. With our support they will run a series of online and in-person workshops for over 2,000 primary school students, as well as 4 family events within the summer festival.

Liberty Choir seeks to promote the rehabilitation of prisoners by setting up choirs in prisons to break the cycle of re-offending on release. They host an annual Friends & Family Concert in each of the 10 prisons and we’re pleased to support @LibertyChoirUK’s next concert.

The Royal Northern College of Music has a mission to educate and train musicians to the highest level for the benefit of individuals and society at large. We’re supporting @RNCMlive’s Engage Brass programme, supporting young brass musicians, bands and ensembles.

We’re pleased to provide funding to @Rosehilltheatre, a local theatre company in West Cumbria. They offer disadvantaged children and young people valuable experiences in the performing arts, helping them to develop skills for their future development and long term life chances.

We’re supporting @britymt’s Creative Work Placement scheme which offers paid work opportunities for emerging composers, musical directors, directors, choreographers, stage managers and designers, to work on brand-new theatre productions with leading industry practitioners.

We’re proud to support @OlympiasMusic's Musical Horizons project: weekly music workshops enhanced with visits to a local cultural venue. The project will work with 120+ children and young people attending two Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) schools in Manchester

RT @giveabookorg: Thank you for the mention @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret in your excellent podcast, @RestIsPolitics, last week! 📣 Wa…

We're funding @giveabookorg's prison family reading initiative, Raising Readers. This offers families separated by parental imprisonment the chance to connect around reading and has enabled over 6,000 prisoner parents, uncles, aunts and grandparents to read with loved ones.

RT @ComedyAwards: Behind the scenes at the Edinburgh Comedy awards with our winners and co-host @richardosman in the press centre. @ThatG…

@ComedyAwards Congratulations, Rob Copland!

RT @ComedyAwards: The winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2024 Victoria Wood winner is Rob Copland!

We’re pleased to support @TheIGF’s Guitar Circus programme which harnesses the popularity of the guitar with young people and uses that popularity to give young people a way into composing and creating music.

This summer, we’re supporting @NYBBGB, the UK’s leading brass band charity for children and young people, to run courses and concerts for 140 young people from all over the UK. Follow their page for more info!