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Forward Arts Foundation is a registered charity: our mission is to promote the knowledge and enjoyment of poetry.
Through programmes including the Forward Prizes and National Poetry Day, we celebrate excellence in poetry, support poets, change lives by giving people the confidence to create and communicate, and strengthen communities. We need your help to continue our work.
Your gift to Forward Arts Foundation will support the development of the next generation of poets, via books, mentoring and opportunities to write and perform.
They include Shukria Rezaei, who arrived in the UK as a 14-year-old fleeing persecution. In 2018, after receiving a Forward Prizes bursary for her poetry, her work, inspired by poems in the Forward Book of Poetry, was published by Picador. Last year, she spoke at the United Nations in Geneva as a representative of the Hazara minority of Afghanistan. Hear her in this video.
Give £10 to help us send a National Poetry Day pack to a local library or school
Give £20 towards our vibrant season of events in the run up to the Forward Prizes
Give £50 to build our commissioning fund for new poetry every year
Or give £5 a month to support our core work promoting the knowledge and enjoyment of poetry
Donate via Paypal Giving Fund or contact us to take your support further as a Patron or programme sponsor.
We are a registered charity (number 1037939) and we are delighted to accept legacies: if you would like to speak to us, call on 020 7845 4655 or email info@forwardartsfoundation.org