Development and funders

We are incredibly thankful to all our donors, supporters, funders, partners and stakeholders, without whom our work would simply not be possible.

Though the pandemic and subsequent reopening and recovery period has been challenging and continues to be so, this vital support enables us to continue delivering our work.

As we focused on reopening and reconnecting to in-person audiences and participants, we successfully applied to National Heritage Lottery Grants for a heritage-focused community and oral history project with the Bengali community across the Cathedral Quarter in Norwich. Local grants, Trust and Foundations and individual donors are vital to us, and we remain supported via project grants for our programmes with young people through The Geoffrey Watling Charity, Norwich Freemen’s Charity and Paul Bassham Trust.

Our Escalator Talent Development Programme is supported through Amazon Literary Partnerships and individual donors, and bursary places on our programmes are supported by Malcolm Bradbury Trust, Anglia Ruskin University and Kit de Waal and Linbury Trust – all crucial to developing new and emerging writers from backgrounds historically under-represented on our bookshelves.