Applause!
£5 per month
- £60 per year (£75 with gift aid).
Your £ helps ...
...a young person living in one of London’s most severely deprived wards access to free one-to-one therapy—helping them creatively explore their challenges and strengths while building positive mental health.
Donate NowOvation!
£20 per month
- £240 per year (£300 with gift aid).
Your £ helps ...
...a young carer connect with others who also support a family member with a disability or illness—giving them the space to simply be a kid. Through DreamArts, they can express themselves and create powerful original work, from photography exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts to poetry slams at the London Library.
Donate NowCurtain Call!
£50 per month
- £600 per year (£750 with gift aid).
Your £ helps ...
...a young creative take the lead. Through our Expand leadership scheme, aspiring creative entrepreneurs design and run their own projects with their peers—building confidence, teamwork, and real-world experience. Many go on to launch careers in the creative industries or apply their new skills in education, healthcare, and other sectors.
Donate NowChorus of Angels!
£100 per month
- £1,200 per year (£1,500 per year with gift aid).
Your £ helps ...
...give young unaccompanied refugees a voice through DreamArts Rep, empowering them to create and perform their own original shows. This not only strengthens their language skills and wellbeing, but also celebrates their identity beyond immigration status and media stereotypes.
Donate NowVolunteer
Give your time and talent to support DreamArts as Volunteer Leader or Volunteer Support.
Volunteer Leader
Ideal for those looking to develop a career as a youth arts practitioner, you will help devise, plan, develop and deliver a programme working alongside one of our experienced tutors.
Volunteer Support
Providing a range of support for our members e.g. helping register members, and helping with sessions if you wish.
Become a Partner
DreamArts aims to empower and inspire young people, uncovering and nurturing their talents to help them explore who they are and make positive life choices. We are always thrilled to hear from organisations interested in supporting this work.
None of the girls from the group have come to the attention of the police during or after working with DreamArts.
Sarah Taylor, Westminster Young People's Practitioner
DreamArts is one of London's leading youth arts companies
British Theatre Guide
Exceptional... one of the strongest projects that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. I don't think I've ever visited a project where I haven't seen anything that needs improving!
Sharon Matthews, Westminster City Council
DreamArts achieves the strongest outcomes for young people of any Westminster voluntary youth provider.
Katie Johnson, Tri Borough Commissioner for Young People
You help me so much, you make me see things differently and I swear I really do... from starting off as nothing to being above my continuous falls. Thank you to the amazing team called DreamArts
S, aged 19
Key Funders
Our work is made possible thanks to funding from Trusts, foundations, and donors. This includes:
- Awards for All
- Arts Council England
- Edward Harvist Trust Fund
- Hyde Park Estate Charity
- Strand Parishes Foundation
- St James's Place Foundation
- Westminster Foundation
- Westminster Almshouses Foundation
- Westminster Amalgamated Charity
- Young Westminster Foundation
Friends of DreamArts
The following individuals generously donated to us during the year.
Curtain Call!
- Anis Suterwalla
Ovation! Friends
- Jon Gyngell
- Wayne Roberts
- Ronald Cummings-John
- John Hyatt
- Mark Bunyan
- Zaffer Raniwala
- Asif Raniwala
- Toni Medcalf
- Nigel Jones
- Cecil Quillen
- Ann Goodger
Applause! Friends
- Anne Reyersbach
- Osahon Orchard
- Naomi Roper
- Richard Dougal
