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Individual donations are a crucial form of support for us. They supplement our income from grants and commercial activities, and we are often able to direct them towards immediate priority areas.

Personal donations help to fund and develop a whole range of folk activities across music, dance and scholarly research. From developing emerging talent, supporting folk-dance or training the next generation of folk programmers, your donation, large or small, will directly help to grow and nourish the future of the English folk arts.

Can you help us to stand up for folk?

From April 2023, our support from Arts Council England will be cut by £140,000. None of Friday’s new funding awards were made to organisations dedicated to England’s folk arts. Read more

How we use your donations

Individual donors have been essential to the success of major capital projects in past years – including the comprehensive renovation in 2016 of Kennedy Hall in our London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House.

Some recent and ongoing projects directly funded by private donations such as yours include:

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If you prefer, you can also support one of our specific priority areas.