Help us keep every
workshop free.
Everything we do is free at the point of access. Every workshop. Every club. Every weekend of Resonate. Every minute of Bankfest. That’s only possible because people choose, year after year, to make it so.
You can donate directly — or support us by subscribing to our young writers’ newspaper or buying a book from our shop. Every penny of every route below goes back into funding the charity.
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ONE OFF DONATIONS
DONATE NOW
Every pound goes directly into free workshops, clubs and festivals for young people across Dorset. No glossy brochures. No fundraising stunts. Just the work.
BUYS
A notebook, pencils and printed workbook for one young writer for a term.
BUYS
A free place at one of our after-school clubs The Vault, The Writers’ Account or Podcasting
BUYS
A whole-class workshop at a primary school, led by our practitioners and volunteer mentors
NAMED SPONSORSHIP
Sponsor a published anthology.
Your name in the back of the book.
Every one of our secondary cohorts ends with their names on the cover of a professionally published book — ISBN, submitted to The British Library, launched in a local bookshop. It costs £2,000 to make one happen.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Your name in the back of the book, with the young authors
An invitation to the public book launch at a local bookshop
Copies of the finished anthology to keep, share or give
SUPPORT US BY BUYING THE WORK
Prefer to receive something in return?
Subscribe to the newspaper our young writers produce, or buy one of their published books from our shop. Every penny goes back into funding the charity.
SUBSCRIBE to
What's Going On? the newspaper
Our young writers at The Vault produce a quarterly newspaper, professionally printed and widely distributed. Subscribe and get every edition posted to your door. The newspaper is theirs. The subscription is yours. The money is ours to put back into the clubs.
SHOP
Buy a book from our shop
Every anthology, songbook, survival guide and comic our young writers have published is available in our online shop. Beautiful objects, written and illustrated by young people, printed with ISBNs and submitted to The British Library. Every sale funds the next cohort's work.
Where the money goes.
The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares is a registered charity (no. 1194307). Our latest accounts are on the Charity Commission website and available on request. The overwhelming majority of every pound we raise goes directly into delivering work with young people. We’re grateful to The National Lottery Reaching Communities, Dorset Council, Garfield Weston, Investec, Adobe, Alice, Ellen, Cooper, Dean Foundation, The Hargreaves Foundation, The Pixel fund, The World of Books Foundation, The Leathersellers Foundation, The Hedley Foundation, Pickled Ink, OPIS-TECH, Echotown Studios, The Bridport Literary Festival, Arts Council England, St James’s Place Foundation, G F Smith, Podium.me, and to every school, parent, mentor and trustee.