Arts Emergency

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🚨🚨Calling all Traitors fans!! 🚨🚨

We've got an AMAZING chance for you to win a VIP table for you and 13 of your most trusted (or suspicious 👀) friends at The Traitors: Live Experience.

Enter our raffle for a chance to win 👉 bit.ly/4abubNF

Closes 3 March 2026

A yellow slide with text that says "My first mentoring session was amazing! I feel like [my mentor] is a great fit for me and I'm looking forward to our next meeting." - Arts Emergency 2026 Mentee

A yellow slide with text that says "Our session went amazing, everything was great we really got to understand each other" - Arts Emergency 2026 Mentee

A yellow slide with text that reads "It was great, went really well, great, really she's such a a wonderful person to talk to with such a wonderful personality and is very helpful." - Arts Emergency 2026 Mentee

Our 2026 mentoring programme has just kicked off, & already our inbox is filling with the most heart-warming messages from mentees after their first 1-to-1 meetings.

If you'd like to be a future AE mentor, join our Network to be the 1st to hear when apps open👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

The logo of the TV series The Traitors with a red banner and text reading 'Enter the Arts Emergency raffle for a chance to win a VIP table at'

🚨🚨Calling all Traitors fans!! 🚨🚨

We've got an AMAZING chance for you to win a VIP table for you and 13 of your most trusted (or suspicious 👀) friends at The Traitors: Live Experience.

Enter our raffle for a chance to win 👉 bit.ly/4abubNF

Closes 3 March 2026

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HNY 🚨🚨🚨 We’re looking for a Community Manager to join the AE team!
If you have experience of managing youth engagement & community programmes, and a passion for amplifying youth voice, this could be the role for you!
More info 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/jobs

A red square with a quote in white text reading "Creating more opportunities and removing barriers for young people from all backgrounds to explore a career in the arts is hugely important, which is what AE helps do so well." - Ben, Arts Emergency Bursar

Could you join our Bursar Club - a small, powerful group of supporters who donate £83+ a month to fund a place for an under-resourced young person with big dreams on our mentoring programme for a entire year!
👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

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Happy New Year! 🎉
Do something impactful and meaningful this year, get involved with Arts Emergency!
There are so many ways to be part of our movement:
- Join our Network
- Donate
- Fundraise for us
- Share our mission
We look forward to welcoming you to the community! 🥰
www.arts-emergency.o...

Join the Bursar Club The Bursar Club is a small, powerful group of very special people who donate £83+ per month towards our programmes, ensuring that we can continue bringing 300 new young people into our community every single year!

We're looking for 27 Bursars to fund the final 27 mentee places on the programme. 16 generous souls have already pledged to fund 21 spots, so we only need 6 more!

Could this be you? Join our Bursar Club 👉

Sam was on our mentoring programme back in 2018. His mentor gave him the encouragement he needed to pursue his dream of working in the film industry.

Our mentoring programme makes young people believe in themselves and that their BIG dreams are valid!
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A green square with Arts Emergency logo in top left corder and bold text reading 'In 2025 our Community Fundraisers raised £6,000 for Arts Emergency

This year because of you, an amazing £6,000 has been raised through club nights, comedy nights, marathon runs, birthday fundraisers, artwork sales, and so many other creative acts of generosity! Thank you!!
If you're interested in being a Community Fundraiser, get in touch 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

Of course not everyone can donate at this level. Can you make a one-off donation this December? ALL donations matter and build this movement brick by brick. 🌹🥖
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate

Join the Bursar Club The Bursar Club is a small, powerful group of very special people who donate £83+ per month towards our programmes, ensuring that we can continue bringing 300 new young people into our community every...

We still need 18 Bursars to join Rhod and fund the last 18 of 300 places in our 2026 mentoring programme. Want to do something simple, beautiful and practical? Join today! 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate/becom...

Without that encouragement Rhod wouldn’t be performing on international stages today, and that’s what our mentors do. They give young people without the networks and guidance the confidence and connections to see they have a right to pursue their passions and thrive in the creative world.

“In school I knew nobody who had gone into TV, radio, theatre…nobody who had gone into the creative arts full stop [...] a girlfriend persuaded me to try stand-up at the age of 33. The idea seemed totally absurd to me, utterly outside the realms of possibility of my own life”- Rhod Gilbert, Comedian

Comedian Rhod Gilbert (male, 50s, beard, brown hair), standing against a red background with a quote written in white reading "I support Arts Emergency because I am very aware that there must be so many people out there, like me, who never consider that this creative world is for them."

Since launching our winter appeal, 9 generous new Bursars have joined Rhod in our Bursar Club, pledging £83+ a month to fund a place on our life-changing mentoring programme!

Hi Alison,
Thanks so much for fundraising for Arts Emergency. Please email ingrid@art-emergency.org
Ingrid can answer your enquiries to smoothly set up the fundraiser.

Thanks for sharing Josh

Thanks for sharing Dave

Join the Bursar Club The Bursar Club is a small, powerful group of very special people who donate £1-4k per year towards our programmes, ensuring that we can continue bringing 300 new young people into our community every...

If you believe in widening access, passing the ladder down, and opening doors the industry keeps closed - this is one practical way to do it.

✨ Will you be one of the 27?
Join the Bursar Club 👉 bit.ly/4p6Xqrw

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Thanks to our Bursars, in 2025 we matched 300 mentoring pairs.

We want to do it again - but we need 27 more people to step forward.

These young people aren’t dreamers - they’re determined, talented, and often the first in their families to imagine a creative life.
What they lack is connection.
That’s where Bursars come in.

Join our Bursar Club 👉 bit.ly/4p6Xqrw

And we’ve heard powerful declarations, too:
📢 “I’m an artist.”
📢 “I want to make set design sustainable.”
📢 “I want to tell the stories my culture has kept hidden.”

We’ve heard:
“I don’t know anyone who does what I want to do.”
“Maybe someone can show me a path that doesn’t cost money I don’t have.”

Over the past few months, our team has interviewed hundreds of young creatives. One thing is clear:
There’s no recession of imagination.

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We still need to fund 27 of 300 places on our 2026 Mentoring Programme.

Each place = a young person supported for a full year of mentoring, coaching, training & industry connection.

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🌟 This winter, we have a chance to make something extraordinary happen - and we’re looking for 27 people to help us do it. 🌟

Join our Bursar Club 👉 bit.ly/4p6Xqrw

Shop Have a browse and shop with purpose! Every item listed powers young creatives by raising money for Arts Emergency's impactful programmes.

Need gift ideas? 🎁
Check out the Arts Emergency shop page 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/about-us/shop

From beautiful art prints to books and calendars, we've got good things that help fund our great work! 💗

Check it out!!!

Jobs Arts Emergency is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive organisation.

We're looking for a Head of Finance & Operations to join the Arts Emergency team!

If you're strategic leader with a strong understanding of charitable governance, finance and operations, this could be the role for you.

Applications close 14 Nov 2025.

Find out more 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/jobs

Artists Pages 2026 Calendar (A3) | For Arts Emergency | UK & Rest of w For orders to the United States and Canada, order here.Artists Pages has teamed up with 12 artists to release their very first charity calendar, raising funds for Arts Emergency. This project is suppo...

So grateful to Artists Pages - the cultural platform and media company shaping how audiences discover and celebrate the artists of today - which has created its first charity calendar, raising funds for Arts Emergency! Buy it here 👉 bit.ly/3LfBxXQ

📢 JOB OPP: Head of Finance & Operations
Arts Emergency is looking for an inclusive & strategic leader with the ability to inspire & motivate others, & a strong understanding of charitable governance, finance & operations.
Deadline to apply: 14 Nov 2025
Find out more 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/jobs

‘Theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people’: Daniel Day-Lewis talks class, cinema and his crush on Mary Poppins Speaking at the London film festival, the triple Oscar-winner mounted a fierce defence of movies and method acting, although he conceded My Left Foot couldn’t be made today

‘Theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people’: Daniel Day-Lewis talks class, cinema and his crush on Mary Poppins