friends scheme 2025

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Our Friends Scheme is a brand-new initiative for 2025 which gives our faithful and valued audience members an opportunity to support the inspiring new work we are devising. 

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The festival is keen to expand, while continuing to run our November festival in Aldeburgh. To that end, we are keen to take poetry to parts of Suffolk it doesn’t otherwise reach. We are developing a new schools programme, sending poets into classrooms across the county to share our love of poetry with the next generation of readers and writers. 
 

We are also organising outreach activities in other venues; in 2025 we hope to be collaborating with Suffolk Libraries on a series of readings and workshops to happen in the run-up to the festival weekend, bringing poetry to their users in local branches. We are also working with some of the most innovative local artists and photographers to join poetry with other creative practices. 

This is an exciting time for us, as we consider ways of growing the festival, and we invite you to be part of it. You can become a Friend for a minimum donation of £50 (on which we can claim gift aid where eligible). For your donation we will list you as one of our sponsors, in both print and online programmes.

 

To become a Friend for 2025 click here

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Frequently asked questions and answers about the Friends scheme are here. 
 

If you are a UK taxpayer, the value of your Friends Membership donation can be increased by 25% under the Gift Aid scheme at no extra cost to you. To gift aid your donation click here.

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For any question about the Friends scheme, please write to admin@poetryinaldeburgh.org

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