Supporters

Saturday Soup is  where stories are shared, generations meet, memories resurface, and new traditions are born.

Every bowl of story, every moment of laughter or reflection is part of a bigger mission: preserving African-Caribbean heritage and strengthening community bonds through art, food, and storytelling.

When you support Saturday Soup, you help us:

Feed Culture

Your contribution keeps Black British stories alive  in voices, performances, and lived experience passed from elders to young people.

Build Community

Our gatherings reduce isolation, create intergenerational connection, and offer a warm, welcoming space for residents across South London to meet, talk, dance, and remember together.

Empower Creativity

Every donation supports artists, DJs, hosts, storytellers, designers, photographers, and community performers who make each Saturday Soup a work of living art.

Expand Access

Your support helps us offer free or low-cost community tickets so no one is turned away for financial reasons. You make it possible for people of all ages to participate  and belong.

Protect Heritage

Saturday Soup honours food traditions, music, migration, activism, resistance and joy. Supporting us helps preserve the stories of previous generation and ensures the next generation inherits cultural roots as strong as their ambitions.

How You Can Help

Whether you’re an individual, a family, a small business or a major corporate partner, your support has real impact.

Community Donors

From a Crock Bowl contribution to a full Heritage Dish, individual support helps fund supplies, catering, artist care and community access.

Corporate Sponsors

Our Plantain, Ackee, Jollof and Breadfruit tiers offer creative visibility, branding, storytelling opportunities and meaningful engagement with local communities.

Annual Legacy Partner

For organisations ready to invest in cultural continuity, our annual partnership funds the full Saturday Soup season — six events celebrating history, identity, resilience and joy.

Join Us at the Table

Your support doesn’t just fund an event.
It nourishes a community. It honours a legacy. It shapes the stories of tomorrow.

Saturday Soup: Our Roots keep us Moving

Support Saturday Soup and help us feed culture, community, and creativity.

Community Donors (Individuals & Small Businesses)

Crock Bowl (£5–£20)

Helps fund a community ticket or basic supplies.

Shared Spoon (£25–£50)

Covers essentials for one event (plates, décor, tableware).

Dutch Pot (£75–£150)

Supports the Host, DJ, or Artist Liaison.

Heritage Dish (£200–£300)

Covers catering for the full audience.

Corporate Sponsorship (Per Event)

Plantain Tier (£300–£500)

Supports supplies, décor, community tickets, or Host/DJ.

Benefits: Logo on event page & flyer, public thank-you, 1 social post, discounted tickets.

Ackee Tier (£750–£1,500)

Supports venue hire or audience experience staff.

Benefits: Includes Plantain + stage/digital signage, video logo, 3–5 posts, staff storytelling session, 2 tickets.

Jollof Tier (£2,000–£3,500)

Funds videography, sound, lighting, or photography.

Benefits: Includes Ackee + named segment, speaking slot, 5 tickets, newsletter feature, framed thank-you.

Breadfruit Tier (£4,000–£7,500)

Supports livestream/PPV, full marketing, or up to 100% of an event.

Benefits: Includes Jollof + prominent branding, Legacy Sponsor status, custom video, VIP access, team storytelling day.

Annual Sponsorship

Annual Legacy Partner (£60,000)

Funds all six Saturday Soup events for the year.

Benefits: Exclusive annual branding, major visibility, content collaborations, quarterly engagement events, full VIP access, media spotlight.

Five ASide Theatre extends heartfelt thanks to the funders, partners, and community champions who make our work possible.
Your belief in our mission — to honour heritage, strengthen community, and create culture with and for local people — fuels every performance, workshop, gathering and story we share.

We are deeply grateful to the organisations, trusts, councils, foundations, and community groups that have stood with us.

Grant Funders & Foundations

UnLtd Awards for Social Entrepreneurs
Vegan Society Grants
Awards for All (The People’s Writes / Windrush 75)
Trading for Good: Community Business Programme
Bently Advancing Life Chances Grant
Barchester Health Care Foundation
Lottery Heritage Fund (Saturday Soup)
Arts Council England – Project Grants
Magic Little Grants
London Catalyst
The London Community Trust
The Funding Network
Rocket Science (GLA Untold Stories)
Advice Support Knowledge Information Grant
Community AC Fund
Social History Society
Artist in Libraries
Building Stronger Communities
Sutton Community Fund

Local Authority & Public Sector Support

LB Merton
Merton Civic Pride
Merton Health on the High Street
Merton Local Giving Ltd
Merton Volunteer Service
Croydon Voluntary Action
A2D Housing GRP C
GLA Build Stronger Communities
GLA Untold Stories
NHS Winter Fund
NHS App Fund
NHS South West London
NHS South West London – Childhood Immunisation Awareness Grant

Community Organisations & Partners

Place at My Table
Arts Network Sutton
Ghanaian Parents Association
Community AC SU SCF Grant

Corporate & Local Business Support

AFC Wimbledon Ltd
Athletics For All
Clarion Futures

Our Deepest Thanks

Your generosity ensures that our theatre, heritage, and community programmes continue to grow — reaching elders, young people, families, artists and audiences across South London.

Thank you for keeping the stories alive.
Thank you for sitting at the table with us.