Trusts & foundations

Creating lasting impact, together

Charitable trusts and foundations play a hugely important role in helping us bring creativity, connection, and joy to our communities.

Your support helps us inspire laughter, spark imagination, and create moments of wonder — boosting wellbeing, confidence, and people's sense of connection through shared cultural experiences.

Together, we're helping to build healthier, happier communities by:

• bringing outstanding live performances to the beautiful heritage venue, Theatre Royal Winchester.
• improving our historic building to make it more accessible, welcoming, and environmentally sustainable for future generations.
• nurturing the talent of our local creatives, providing support, mentoring and platforms to perform.
• keeping Hat Fair, our much-loved outdoor arts festival, free and accessible for everyone.
• supporting Playmakers Youth Theatre to build confidence, social and creative skills of our young people.

Thank you

Play to the Crowd is thankful to the following for their support:

• The Backstage Trust
• Garfield Weston Foundation
• Foyle Foundation
• Hampshire and IOW Community Foundation
• The Selwood Trust
• Theatres Trust

Let's start a conversation

If you represent a charitable trust or foundation and would like to find out more about Play to the Crowd, we'd love to hear from you. We are always happy to discuss the projects and programmes that could benefit from your support and explore how we can work together to make a lasting impact.

We also warmly welcome trustees and grant‑making representatives to visit Winchester and experience our productions, events, and community activities first‑hand.