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Champion opportunity, nurture creativity and strengthen the future of the performing arts. Support LAMDA.

LAMDA (Registered Charity no. 312821) is the UK's oldest drama school, with 165 years experience training actors, technicians and directors. As a global leader in vocational performing arts education, we play a vital role in enriching cultural life around the world and shaping the future of theatre, film, television, audio and emerging media.

Every year, around 400 students from across the globe join LAMDA to experience our unique ensemble-based artistic and technical conservatoire. Our growing community of supporters help us to deliver exceptional training, widen access, and invest in the future of creative talent.

Whether you’re an individual donor, a Trust or Foundation, or a corporate partner, your support could contribute to essential Scholarships, our emergency Student Support Fund or fundamental Projects that sustain our work. 

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The need for philanthropy has never been more urgent. Together, we can widen access to world-class training for students from lower-income and underrepresented backgrounds, ensuring talent, not circumstance, determines who has the opportunity to train at LAMDA. 

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How You Can Support Us

There are various ways you can make a difference to a student’s life, the performing arts and creative skills sector and the wider community. We've highlighted just some of them below.

"A society that doesn’t support the arts loses something fundamentally human. I care about the arts, I believe in what LAMDA does, and I want to support people who are doing something meaningful in the world."

Larry Wallace