![A timber fence panel curves from the left corner to the right and into the distance. There are trees and a building - The Nest - in the distance.](https://sc-cft.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Support-Us/The-Nest/Nest_Web-Header_2000x860.jpg?w=1280&h=550&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1717070094&s=30b4b42d84ce67d7256e296bb0210a24)
The Nest Appeal
Support usThe Nest Appeal
The great artists, performers, writers and curators of 2040 and 2050 need to be nurtured now: our investment in them is, at heart, an investment in a future that we believe can be brighter and better with culture and creativity at its core.
Let's Create Strategy, Arts Council England, 2020
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Incubating, hatching and showcasing the creative talent of the future
Do you remember The Tent, Theatre on the Fly and The Spiegeltent? These venues offered space for us to do something a little bit different to our usual programming. With an increasingly urgent need for more space to develop creative projects and support emerging artists, we are planning a new venue to do just that.
With sustainability at its heart, we have found an ideal structure previously located at the Pleasance Theatre in London and used at the Edinburgh Festival. Usable year-round and fully wheelchair accessible, this 119-seater studio will have a thrust stage to match our sister theatres and removable stacked seating giving us plenty of flexibility.
Nestled in the trees beside the Festival Theatre, what better name for this space to incubate creativity in our community, hatch new work in progress and nurture growing artists, than The Nest.
I think this is a most exciting project and I am privileged to be associated with its potential success. Chichester Festival Theatre has been a significant part of my working life and to continue my support gives me enormous satisfaction
Dame Patricia Routledge DBE | President of the Nest Appeal
We now have planning permission! We need to raise at least £1,500,000 to make this dream a reality and have just reached the halfway point. Now we need your help to get us across the finish line.
Donate today and sign up to receive regular updates on our Appeal and ways you can get involved in fundraising events.
If you'd like to discuss supporting this project or learn more about it, we'd love to hear from you. Please email Sarah Mansell, Appeal Director or call 01243 212869 to chat to a member of our team.
Donate today and help us feather our nest!
![A hand drawn sketch of a building in a woodland - The Nest](https://sc-cft.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Support-Us/The-Nest/The-Nest-donation-PS25-landscape-card-903x600.jpg?w=727&h=505&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1713516463&s=90e8585c0ebb6c9168c268602808c347)
Help us seed the wildflower roof
![A computer generated image of a bird's eye view inside a theatre layout](https://sc-cft.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Support-Us/The-Nest/The-Nest-donation-PS50-landscape-card-903x600.jpg?w=727&h=505&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1713516518&s=faee103be78ea1532dc522c3ec102579)
Help us recover the bench seating inside
![A timber fence panel curves from the left corner to the right and into the distance. There are trees and a building - The Nest - in the distance.](https://sc-cft.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Support-Us/The-Nest/The-Nest-donation-PS100-landscape-card-903x600.jpg?w=727&h=505&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1713516591&s=23a2a22b832f1274cff7622104e37e43)
Help us buy materials for the timber balustrade
![A silver birch tree trunk is on the right side next to aluminium panelling on the right - with an imprint of wood within it.](https://sc-cft.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Support-Us/The-Nest/The-Nest-donation-PS250-landscape-card-903x600.jpg?w=727&h=505&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1713516645&s=1f9ad4a03c3e83af1f6032720c57a0be)
Help us clad the building
We would like to thank the following major donors
Platinum
Backstage Trust
Mark and Sandy Foster
Charles Holloway OBE
Denise Patterson DL
Gold
Caro Newling OBE
David and Sophie Shalit
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Angela Wormald
Silver
David and Jane Cobb
Veronica J Dukes
George Galazka
James and Anne
McMeehan Roberts
Dame Patricia Routledge DBE
Salomon Oppenheimer
Philanthropic Foundation
Bronze
John and Joan Adams
Gay and Roger Bradley
Bernard Buckley and Christopher Casburn
David and Sue Foster
Sally and Vaughan Lowe
Nigel and Julia Maile
The Miles Foundation
Jacquie and Martin Ogilvie
Douglas and Lyana Peniston
Kate and John Siebert
Dave and Christine Smithers
Hannah and Alf Strange
Howard M Thompson