We offer four membership levels. Becoming a Friend gives you exclusive access to supporter events and info, while our Good Friends, Best Friends and Writers’ Circle get this and more besides. Explore the full range of benefits – and what your support could do for us – below.
If you are a UK taxpayer, you can increase any donations you’ve made this year, and for the past four years, by 25% just by ticking a box at the checkout. Completing a Gift Aid declaration is one of the many easy ways to support us.
(£17 monthly by standing order)**
Benefits include:
● Our heartfelt thanks
● Your name in our list of supporters, online and in print
● Invitation, for you and a friend, to the supporters’ event for every HighTide production, including pre-show drinks and a post-show conversation with our artists*
● Invitation, for you and a friend, to our annual playreading festival*
● An Annual Report showing the impact of your gift
Your gift might support:
● A one-day creative writing workshop in a school
● An actor for a rehearsed reading
● A writer’s fee to join rehearsals
(£100 monthly by standing order)**
Enjoy all Friends benefits, plus:
● Free, signed copies of any HighTide play texts published in the year
● Invitation, for you and a friend, to join our twice yearly HighTide Script Club evenings (one in Suffolk, one in London); discussing great plays of the past with great writers of today
● Invitation, for you and a friend, to VIP Press Nights*
Your gift might support:
● A week’s creative writing workshop in a community group
● A networking night for playwrights
● Sound and lights on a production
(£250 monthly by standing order)**
Enjoy all Good Friends benefits, plus:
● Invitation, for you and a friend, to the Annual Playwrights’ Dinner, with leading writers and HighTide alumni*
● Opportunities to attend rehearsals
● Concierge service to arrange trips to attend HighTide productions*
Your gift might support:
● 10 bursaries to a creative writing summer school
● A workshop series for aspiring playwrights
● A theatre maker’s fee on a production
(£420 monthly by standing order)**
Enjoy all Best Friends benefits, plus:
● We’ll create a bespoke package of ways for you to get involved with the HighTide work you care about the most: our work in schools and communities, our playwright development, or our productions. You’ll experience first-hand the joy and impact of HighTide’s work.
● Bespoke recognition of your support, aligned with your area of interest.
Your gift might support:
● A term’s creative writing workshops in a cluster of schools
● Running our East of England Playwrights’ Network for a year
● Half a writer’s commission fee for a new play
* Extra cost applies, tickets subjects to availability
** Please contact [email protected] if you’d like to join our Friends programme using a monthly or annual standing order.
All levels of the HighTide Friends scheme comprise a benefits value detailing the actual cost of membership to the charity. These benefits can be purchased separately at this price.
Any amounts given over and above this benefits value are given freely as a donation and are eligible for Gift Aid.
All donations are non-refundable.
- Friends: Donation £180/Benefits £20
- Good Friends: Donation £1,160/Benefits £40
- Best Friends: Donation £2,960/Benefits £40
- Writers’ Circle: Donation £4,960/Benefits £40
How can we help?
If you would like to speak to our Development Manager about becoming a Friend, please get in touch at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.
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