From co-developing Erasmus to evacuating artists and collections in Ukraine in 2022, we have been supporting cultural projects across Europe for almost 70 years. We now need your help to continue providing vital funding and support for cultural projects, places and people during this time of crisis. As an independent non-profit organisation, every euro counts. With your donation, we will help:
In 2022, we worked with 60 organisations to support over 150 cultural projects across Europe, impacting the lives of more than 3 million Europeans of all ages. Examples include:
IMAGO Animation Studios (Ukraine)
ECF's Culture of Solidarity Fund supported the creation of animated short films to support mental health of Ukrainian children affected by the war. Bringing together volunteers, psychologists, animators, screenwriters, directors and sound producers, IMAGO Animation Studios created “Graphics Battalion’’ – an animated short film series aimed at children whose lives changed overnight when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund
Culture of Solidarity funding enabled the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund to provide everyday necessities for cultural workers and artists at the start of the war in Ukraine, ensuring a basic standard of living and security. Our funding also allowed them to support Ukrainian cultural workers who have relocated abroad, ensuring they could continue with their work despite the difficult circumstances.
Walk with Amal (UK)
“Support from the European Cultural Foundation enabled us to produce The Walk – a theatre project featuring Little Amal, a 3.5 metres tall puppet of a 9-year-old girl. Walking 8,000 kilometres across Europe in search of her mother, Amal’s journey during the Covid-19 pandemic was enabled by relays of puppeteers. In a visionary act of solidarity with the plight of refugees, the project bore a single message on behalf of thousands of displaced children: Don’t forget about us.“
Libraries Without Borders (Poland)
“Libraries Without Borders provides books and educational materials to asylum seekers and refugees in Poland, now including many Ukrainian refugees. Refugee facilities in Poland are overcrowded, dangerous and depressing. Books provide a lifeline to many refugees who feel insecure, lonely, isolated and abandoned. With the European Cultural Foundation’s support through the #EuropeChallenge, we are reimagining how our library can support refugees by providing books and educational materials in their native languages.”
Union of Justice (UK)
"At Union of Justice, our motto is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’. We believe that we cannot talk about the climate crisis without recognising that it is also an inequality and race issue. Funding from the European Cultural Foundation allows us to continue our work as the only European, independent, people of colour (POC) led organisation dedicated to both racial and climate justice.”
La Biblioteca Jordi Rubió i Balaguer (Spain)
"Participating in the ECF's Europe Challenge has helped our local library to create a new vision for our city Sant Boi de Llobregat, just miles from Barcelona’s busy international airport. By exploring urban beekeeping and the creation of green corridors at our library, we were able to champion biodiversity and experiment with our communities on ways of greening our city."
ŒNOPE - Borderless European Wine (France)
The concept of the borderless European wine was born from the question: “What will be the wine of tomorrow?” Recognising that wine growers around Europe are facing similar problems (e.g. overstock due to Covid-19, climate change), the European Cultural Foundation’s support enabled the ŒNOPE team to buy wine overstock from vineyards across Europe. They then crafted 10.000 bottles of a unique pan-European blended wine, while allowing wine growers to meet and exchange their experience.
European Review of Books (Netherlands)
Funding from ECF's Culture of Solidarity Fund enabled the launch of a brand-new, multi-lingual, pan-European magazine of culture and commentary: the European Review of Books. Available in print and online, the European Review of Books is committed to a literary culture beyond the nation and the metropole. It is a magazine for great original essays and criticism in both English and in writers' mother tongues.
Major donations & legacies
Are you a private benefactor, family trust or a fellow foundation wishing to offer substantial, long-term support? Do you want to donate to a specific project or make sure your ideals live on by leaving a gift in your will?
The European Cultural Foundation is registered with the Dutch Tax Administration as a cultural charity, ANBI. This means your donation can be 125% tax-deductible within the Netherlands. For all enquiries and more information about donating, please contact Ajda Milne, Fund Development Manager at amilne@culturalfoundation.eu.
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- If you think you can contribute to our mission in a different way (e.g. by donating your time, expertise, goods or services), please contact Ajda Milne, Fund Development Manager at amilne@culturalfoundation.eu.
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