Our Supporters

LAMDA has been fuelling the dramatic arts industry in the UK and beyond for over 160 years – teaching the craft, nurturing talent and igniting imaginations across the globe.​​​​​

We could not continue this work without the generosity of our supporters. Our thanks go to:

Leadership supporters

Audible UK 
Bloomberg Philanthropies 
Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust 
Anne, Lady Dodd and The Sir Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation 
Garfield Weston Foundation 
The Leverhulme Trust 
The MLDauray Arts Initiative 
The Estate of the late Isobel Monk 
The Estate of the late Peter Woods 

Project supporters

Shamez Alibhai
Anne Ashby Gilbert
Audible UK 
Backstage Trust
Professor Naren Barfield 
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Philip Carne MBE & Christine Carne
Sir Nigel Carrington 
Tom Chandos 
Clyde Cooper
Brian Cox
The Estate of the late Alec Custerson
Michelle Daisley  
E B M Charitable Trust
Enterprise Arts Trust
Nese Guner  
Ros and Alan Haigh 
Joanne Hirst  
Rory Kinnear  
Lawrence Wallace and Richard Linenthal 
Karyl Nairn 
Marina Kleinwort Charitable Trust  
The Mila Charitable Organisation 
The Noël Coward Foundation 
Georgia Oetker  
The Overstall Charitable Trust  
The Estate of the late Daphne Palmer
Rajeev Philip 
Timothy Prager 
Nathan Richardson  
David Roper  
Sidney E Frank Foundation 
Shauna and Michael Salomon 
Dame Shirley Pearce DBE  
Peter Thomas and Damien Fletcher
Yuko and Jeff Thomas 
Wates Foundation 
The Woodward Charitable Trust  
Michelle and Alexander Zajac
The Garrick Charitable Trust 
Patricia Hodge OBE  
The Portal Trust  
Taft Holdings 
Jane Williamson  
Oliver Wyman 
Alfred Reinhold Foundation  
The Gale Charitable Trust   
4C Group

Scholarship supporters

The 4C Group 
The American Friends of the London Academy 
of Music & Dramatic Art (AFLAMDA) 
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation 
Audible UK 
The Stanley Picker Trust 
Sir David Suchet CBE & Sheila Suchet 
Andy Summers 
The South Square Trust 
Sophie’s Silver Lining Fund 
Philip Carne MBE & Christine Carne 
The Charitable Arts Foundation 
The Chelsea Arts Club Trust 
The Clothworkers’ Foundation 
Brian Cox CBE and Nicole Ansari-Cox 
Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust 
Benedict Cumberbatch CBE 
The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation 
The Ellen Terry Fellowship Trust 
Enterprise Arts Trust 
The Fulbright – John Wood LAMDA Award 
Jonathan and Sonita Gale 
The David Garrick Scholarship 
The Golden Bottle Trust 
Leah Harvey 
The Leverhulme Trust 
The Lionel Bart Foundation 
The ML Dauray Arts Initiative 
The Overstall Charitable Trust 
The Paula Swift Fund 
Helen Protheroe 
Mrs. Gaynor Rupert 
Mark Schnebli 
The Thomas Carpenter Trust 
Lindsey & Jorge Villon 
The Woodward Charitable Trust 
Christine and Michael Heppell  
Melinda Hughes 
The Portal Trust  
Dame Janet Suzman DBE 
The Wayne Sleep Foundation 
The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation  
The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust  
ITV Studios – The Tony Warren Bursary  
Mab Gwalia  
National Youth Arts Trust 
Sondra Radvanovsky 
The Royal Victoria Hall Foundation – Lilian Baylis Awards  
The Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust  
The Society of London Theatre Laurence Olivier Bursaries (SOLT) 
The Zoë Dominic Fund  
The Elizabeth May Florence Mills Fund 
The BAFTA Scholarship Programme  

Patrons

Olga Basirov 
Clyde Cooper 
Louise Coubrough and Robert Dalziel 
Hugo Eddis 
Nigel Gregory 
The Hon Richard and Mrs Romilly Lyttelton 
International Music and Art Foundation 
Karyl Nairn 
John Lloyd Morgan 
Cynthia Phillips 
Peter Thomas and Damien Fletcher 
Shauna and Michael Salomon 
Mark Schnebli 
Mark and Deirdre Simpson 
Yang Song 
Nancy Standwill and Graham Warren 
Yuko and Jeff Thomas 
Lawrence Wallace and Richard Linenthal 
Ted Wilson 

Supporters

Jonathan and Bryony Cohen 
Elizabeth Griffith 
Alan and Ros Haigh 
Leah Paterson 
John Krumins 

Members

Matt Applewhite 
Charles Barton 
Edmund Cohen 
Emma Cole 
Dan Fenton 
Tim Fosberry 
Richard and Claudia Moore 
Daniel Philpott 
Christopher Road 
Mary Wetherell 
Richard Wooderson 

Note to students: if you intend to make independent applications for funding, please do not contact any of the supporters listed here, as they choose to support our students through LAMDA.