Support Us

Spread the Word is a charity. Our mission is to help underrepresented writers get their work into the world and to connect communities to words and stories. We rely on funding from Arts Council England, support from partners, and the generous support of individual donors to do our work.

To make sure they are accessible, tickets for our workshops, masterclasses, salon events and talks are either free or very low cost. Our development programmes for early stage writers, community programmes with young people and elders, and Deptford Literature Festival, our annual celebration of literature that happens in libraries and cultural spaces across Deptford and Lewisham, are completely free.

We need your help to continue to provide accessible opportunities to write, read and tell stories to our neighbours in Lewisham and people across London and the UK from Black, Asian or Global Majority, working class, low income, care experienced, LGBTQI+, and/or d/Deaf and Disabled communities. In short, the communities that are otherwise left out of the often exclusive world of literature.

If you can, please consider making a donation. We promise to make your money work hard.

Thank you.

Single Donations

£5 one-off

Your support can help us reach more talented writers from diverse communities in London.


£10 one-off

You can help us to support the next generation of writers/ editors, to ensure publishing is more representative of our society.


£25 one-off

Your donation could help make our work accessible for all writers.


£50 one-off donation

Your generous donation will help us to make writing free and accessible to all  people who want to become writers.


£ any one-off

Anything you can donate to us will help us to keep our work free and accessible to London's communities.


Regular Donations

£5 monthly

Your support can help us make sure that talented writers from underprivileged backgrounds are given the chance to make their mark on the world.


£10 monthly

Your donation will help us support talented writers from under-represented communities to develop their craft.


£25 monthly

Your contribution could help us turn emerging writers into published writers.


£50 monthly

This generous donation will help us deliver our community and open-access programmes, bringing participatory writing workshops and opportunities into community spaces and making a positive difference to participants' health and wellbeing.


£ any monthly

Anything you can donate to us regularly will be enormously helpful in ensuring we can continue to offer free accessible programmes for the communities we engage and paid opportunities to the writers and creatives we work with.


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