The Poetry Society
22 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BX
UK
tel +44 (0)20 7420 9880
fax +44 (0)20 7240 4818
info AT poetrysociety.org.uk

 

Our generous donors include:

  • Government
  • Arts Council England
  • New Audiences Fund
  • Department for Education and Services (DfES)
  • London Arts
  • Trusts and Foundations
  • Sir John Cass's Foundation
  • The Baring Foundation
  • Foyle Foundation
  • The Moose Foundation for the Arts
  • The Ratiu Foundation
  • The Big Lottery Fund
  • In Memorium Fund for Susan Howell (1936-2001)
  • Maureen and Francis Nichols
  • Gillian Reynolds

 

Making Donations to the Poetry Society

"Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language." (Peter Porter)

As an independent and non-profit making arts organisation with charitable status, we depend on public funding for our ongoing success. If you feel inspired to make a secure-pay (Visa, Mastercard or Switch) donation right now, please visit our Donations page.

Donations will be allocated to specific projects by the Poetry Society's elected Council of Management. All donors will be credited on our website and in Poetry News.

If you have any questions about donating, please contact  finance AT poetrysociety.org.uk e.g. would you like free advice from a solicitor expert in charity law about how to go about leaving a legacy to the Poetry Fund in your will? Do you know a company or trust which might like to donate to poetry? 

At the Poetry Society, we believe that poetry is for everybody: for established 'literary' poets whose finely crafted work wins prizes and extends the boundaries of the form, and for children and adults who want to find ways to express love, joy, grief and the sheer adventure of being alive. The Poetry Society has found many ways to bring poetry into the lives of people who might not normally come across it. We've been putting poets in schools for nearly thirty years and developing projects, like the 'Poetry Places' scheme, to introduce poets and poetry into the pub, the supermarket, the hospital and the office. We've been exploring the role that poetry can play in healthcare, education and the workplace. But above all, we've been celebrating the richness and power of an art form that enriches the human heart.

Like many arts organisations, we are only able to do the work we do with the help of grants, sponsorship and donations from individual poetry enthusiasts. The Poetry Fund has been launched to raise vital new money for our current work and future projects. It was initiated by the family of Geoffrey Dearmer, at 103 the Poetry Society's oldest member. The annual interest from their generous donation has enabled us to fund a prize for new poets.

Already we have received over forty thousand pounds in the past two years from individual donations and small trusts. The Poet in the City Group, led by Poetry Society member Rosamund Smith, has raised an additional £20,000 from companies and foundations in London for poets to visit inner city schools. These donations have been vital to the Poetry Society's work.

Thank you!

Thanks to:

Janice Archer, Michael Arnott, Joyce I Atkins, May Badman, Desmond Bailey, H G Balfour-Paul, F M Barrett, Lois Beeson, Jed Bellamy, Ama Bell-Gam, Stephen A Berridge, Jonquille Berry, John M Bertin, Thomas G Bicknell, Barbara Bland, Carolyn Boatman, Rose Booth, Janice Booth, Ka Bowles, Maureen Boyle, Sylvia Bradford, Hilda Breckels, Nigel Brown, Adrian Brown, Jill Bunce, P Butterworth, Julie Callan, David Capper, Alison Carr, Harry Carter, David Carter, Ian Cartland, Andy Cattrall, Rupert Chandler, Lorna M Charles-Cross, Paris Christofferson, Joanna Clark, A C Clarke, John Comerford, Sheila Cooper, Felicity A Coury, Louise Craig, Roy Cresswell, Mark Critchlow, Andrew Curtis, Gordon S Darby, Mridul Kumar Das, Diana Davenport, E J Dawson, Anne Delargy, Jessica D'Este, Michael Dethier, Tracey L Dewing, Margaret Diggle, Chris Dodd, Damien Doorley, Robert S Doughty, Maureen Duffy, Tracy Edgington, Julian Emmerson, Peter Epps, Valerie M Eve, U A Fanthorpe & Dr R V Bailey, Penelope Feinstein, Maria Fitzgerald, Kate Fleming, James Flynn, Richard Furniss, Robert Gair, Pamela Garrod, Lord Gavron, Sydney Giffard, Terence Gilson, Margaret Gleave, Vicky Godber-Ford Moore, John Godfrey, John Good, C Gourlay, Nazareno V Grech,  Jeffrey Greenslade, Arthur Greenwood, Susan Grossman, Lord Hacon, Seamus Heaney, P Maria Heitel, Christopher Highton, Georgina Hirsch, Felix Holling, Amy Hollins, Stephen Horsfall, Simon Hosken, Susan Hughes, Jacqueline Hutchinson, Gill Hutchinson, C L Innes, John Jeffcock, Benita Jess, Charis Jocelyn, Brigette Jones, Alex Josephy, Neil Jukes, Penny Kease, Pauline Keith, Mick Sean Kelliher, Andrew Kelly, Caroline Kennedy, Richard Kotas, Jeremy Kourdi, Mischa Kroes, Steve Kupfer, Nigel Larmour, Nigel Lawrence, Rona Laycock, Janet Lewison, Margaret Lightbody, Rebecca Linney, Carol Long, David Lott, Alison Lyon, Rowland Macaulay, Robin Mackenzie, Charles F Makino – Bentley, Mag Maram, Jehane Markham, David Masters, Tinker Mather, John McCann, Rachel McCarthy, James J McCauley, C L McChesney, Willie Stanley McCully, Patrick McManus, Gail McNeill, Louise McRae, Clive Medway, Susan Milan, Ann Miller, Matt Minshall, Morag Morris, Janet Mortimer, Bryan Morwood, Graham Mummery, Bertie Nichols, Christopher North, Lela Novak, Max Nowaz, Donal O'Flynn, John Francis O'Neill, Anne Osbourne, Edward John Parkinson, Amanda Parkyn, William Parry, John M Payne, Fabian Peake, Martin Perry, Robert Pesci, Lance Pierson, Gordon John Pitcairn, Joan Plumbley, Susann Pocknell, John Pope, Ronald Powell, James Price, Diana Pritchard, Neil Rackham, Albert Edward Radcliffe, Shahed Rahman, Catherine Reading, Elisabeth Ribbans, Sheila Richfield, Ingrid Riley, Sophie Rinvolucri, Deborah Rogan, Tina Rooney, Jonathan Sajiwandani, Julia Sarra, Simon Schama, Howard I Schuman, Victoria Selwyn, Janet Shanks, R L Sharpe, Alexander Shaw, Kevin L Smith, Jeremy Solnick, Robert Spencer, Stuart Springthorpe, Martin Spurrier, Patricia Startin, Nic P Steven, Charmian Steven, Eloise Stonborough, Virginia Stourton, Sandra J Sullivan, R Suntharalingam, Alex Sutherland, Angie Sutton, Bill Swainson, Margaret Temple-Fry, Boerries Terfloth, John Thompson, Roger Till, Caroline Tod, Harriet Torr, Ben Tucker, Alan Tunnicliffe, Dorothy Turner, Tricia Veale, Kathleen Wallbank, Timothy Waspe, Terry Wells, Jacqueline Wetter, Peter Wheatley, Robert Whiteley, Paul Wilkins, Esther Williams, Celia Windsor, Jennifer D Wootton, A.S.A. Wyatt, Caroline Zvegintzov