For the last 30 years Forest Forge has been working to bring high quality theatre performances into your local community.  The company is dedicated to providing theatre that everyone can enjoy without travelling too far from home.  Last year over 12500 people enjoyed Forest Forge performances. 

As well as touring theatre productions, Forest Forge runs a Creative Learning programme, bringing theatre to community groups, young people, schools, a local hospice and hard to reach and rurally isolated groups.

Forest Forge regularly works with:

• Children and young people both in and out of education
•  Patients at a local hospice
•  Isolated groups including a local Traveller Community and a group of Asian Women based in Southampton
• Over 145 young people in our weekly Youth Theatre
• Emerging artists and those new to the region, including actors, designers, choreographers and writers

As a registered charity, Forest Forge relies on financial help from friends, donors and other supporters as well as public funding.

By becoming Friend of Forest Forge or by offering a donation you can help us deliver performances around Hampshire and the surrounding region and continue and develop our Creative Learning work.

Please consider becoming a friend or making a donation

We hope that when you hear about Forest Forge you are enjoying a performance or being impressed by the work we are undertaking in the community.   We really hope you are not thinking about money!  Because of this you may not be aware of the costs that we need to cover on a regular basis. 

Here’s how your friends membership or donation can help us:

• £15 pays for one light bulb for a stage lantern
• £25 buys enough paint to base-coat a set
• £35 can help us subsidise three Youth Theatre places for young people each term
• £55 enables us run a storytelling workshop for up to 35 children
• £150 can pay for a 2-hour workshop in a school
• £500 pays a sign language interpreter for one performance
• £5,000 can pay an actor’s wages for a production
• £7,500 allows us to commission a playwright to write a new play especially for Forest Forge

 There are several ways you can support Forest Forge.

 Become a Friend of Forest Forge

There are two levels to choose from and a number of benefits for you to enjoy! To become a Friends please complete the attached form.

 Level One: £15 Individual / £25 Joint

• Your name on all performance programmes and on the Forest Forge website
• Invitation to special Forest Forge events
• Quarterly newsletter – sent via email or in the post
• Badge of support 

Level Two: £35 Individual / £55 Joint

• All Level One benefits
• Invitations to meet the cast and creative team of a performance
• Your name on a banner to be displayed at each performance

Donate to Forest Forge

Forest Forge gratefully accepts donations towards our work.  Donations are always recognised with thanks.

 TO BECOME A FRIEND OF FOREST FORGE OR TO MAKE A DONATION PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM HERE.

Thank you to our current Friends:

Georgina Marshall & Alan Bell,  Sean Aita, Mrs L J Anstey, Peter & Josephine Bending, Adrienne Pye & Bill Clancy, Mr & Dr Bird, Raymond and Doreen Boalch, Joan Brewster, David & Patricia Briers, Rosemary Brinton, Paul Bulpitt, Susan Burnett, Anne Cargill, Douglas & Sylvia Carter, Russell Chandler, Cllr Nigel Clarke, Robin Crellin, Shirley Crouch, Mary Davis, Dr & Mrs M Dye, Paula Edwards, Cllr Christine Ford, Joan & Catherine Frankfort, Colin Fryer, Val Garner, Mrs H C Gay, Liz Gibbons, Mr & Mrs B T Gillett, Gill Graham-Maw, Mr D Hales, Mr M Holland, Neil & Barbara Holmes, Ivor Howcroft, Edward Howson, Mr E. W Hughes, Janine Hukins, Jo Touhey & Jane Rothwell, Canon & Mrs Jones, John & Carol Kitching, Neil Lander-Brinkley, Jonathon Lenaerts, Kiereen & Nicholas Lock, Rob Mason, Mrs A E Matthews, Alison Mayne, Dr & Mrs T McEwan, Pam Mitchell, Dr Edgar Moss, Lt Col Norbury, Carmel & Ron Orton, Mrs R Phillip, Harvey & Jacqui Pitcher, Dominick Potter, Peter & Sue Pritchett-Brown, Mr R Raban-Williams, Mandy Richardson, Sophy Robinson, Christine Romano, Catherine Sandbrook, Natasha Senior, Len Shore, Mr & Mrs R & J Sloley, Melvyn Sloper, Geoffrey Smail, Brenda Smith, Mr & Mrs A Stokes, Mr & Mrs Talman, Richard Thompson, Sandra Treslove, Cliff & Alwyn Tucker, John & Ann Waddington, Mr E C West, Cllr Dr Miranda Whitehead, Jeanne Wilde, Alan & Annie Willens