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Our Supporters
We are hugely grateful to our partners, funders, donors and everyone who supports our work. This enables us to offer a remarkable range of high quality cultural, heritage and creative activities in Sunderland for people to enjoy, experience and participate in.
Thank you to our founding partners for their vision and support in establishing Sunderland Culture.
We wish to thank everyone who generously donated to our Big Give Arts for Impact campaign to help more children enjoy creativity and culture.
Thanks to Arts Council England for its support for Sunderland Culture as a National Portfolio Organisation. Sunderland Culture is funded by the UK Government through the Shared Prosperity Fund.
We wish to thank the following for their support during 2023-24:
Art Fund
Arts Council Collection
Arts Council England
Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy
Association of Independent Museums via DCMS Know Your Neighbourhood Fund
Big Give
British Museum, with thanks to the Dorset Foundation.
Creative Dimension Trust
Clear Channel, in partnership with Sunderland Voluntary Sector Alliance
Community Foundation for Tyne & Wear and Northumberland – Tyne & Wear High Sheriff Award Fund and #iWill Fund.
Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Durham Freemasons Charity
European Regional Development Fund
Family Arts Campaign
Film Hub North / BFI National Lottery
Friends of Sunderland Museum – James Wilson Bequest
Four Nations International Fund
Marsh Charitable Trust
Museums Association – Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund
National Theatre
National Trust – Heritage Open Days New Wave programme
NEXUS
Sir James Knott Trust
Sunderland City Council – Washington Area Committee: Neighbourhood Investment Fund & the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust
TATE – British Art Network
University of Sunderland
Thank you to everyone who has generously donated in our venues or online to support our work.
Culture Start
Culture Start is supported by a £1.2m Place Partnership award from Arts Council England through the National Lottery, and generously funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Sir James Knott Trust, The Sir Tom Cowie Fund at the Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland and the Gillian Dickinson Trust.
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
We are delighted Sunderland City Council has received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players and the DCMS Museum Estate and Development Fund, administered by Arts Council England to support the redevelopment of Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
