Named Donors.
The following individuals, businesses and charitable trusts have each contributed £1000 or more towards the Britten as a Boy statue and will have their names added to the bronze Donors Plaque, alongside the statue.
To add your name, a business, or that of a loved one, please complete the form at the bottom of this page, where you will also find our bank details for your donation.
Adnams Plc.
Nicholas Bareford — in memoriam
Barnard Sampson LLP
Judi, Tamara and Sophie Britten*
Sarah Bruml*
Clare Burton*
Tim Cochrane
Dame Judi Dench CH DBE
East Suffolk Council
Ian Hamilton
Hartismere School
James Horner — in memoriam
Sir Christopher Howes KCVO
Rev. David Hutt
Christopher Keyte
Kirkley Poor's Land Estate
Stephen Mead — for ‘Wilk’
Lowestoft Players Theatre
Lowestoft Town Council*
Mitchells Group Ltd.
Alasdair Morton
The Mulhall Family
Pakefield Singers
Norton Peskett Solicitors*
The Rainbow Dickinson Trust
Richard Redding
Jenny Ling Ti Slater
Zeb Soanes
George Stuart and Vivian Liff — in memoriam
Taylor Properties Trading Ltd
Janet Trewin and Ross Marshall
Dr. Justin Vickers
Ruth Wharrier
Wigmore Hall
Wild Search
Alfred Williams Charitable Trust
Betty Willingale — in memoriam
John Wilson
The Wisher Family
Our deepest gratitude for every contribution that will enable the statue of Britten as a Boy to inspire generations of Lowestoft children to follow their ambitions.
Supporters.
We are grateful to the following individuals and organisations who expressed their early public support for the Britten as a Boy statue.
David Charles Abell — Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Philly POPS
Peter Aldous MP — Member of Parliament for Waveney
Sir Thomas Allen CBE FRCM — Baritone, Chancellor of Durham University
Kate Argyle — Local Heritage Education Manager, Historic England
Phil Aves* — (Retired) Chair of the Lowestoft Rising Cultural Education Partnership
Dame Janet Baker CH DBE FRSA — Mezzo-Soprano
Ricardo Barros ARAM — Director of Mercurius Company
The Lord Berkeley of Knighton, CBE — Michael Berkeley, composer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords
The Baroness (Deborah) Bull, CBE — Vice President & Vice-Principal, Kings College London
Britten Pears Arts
Peter Byatt — Kirkley Councillor and Labour Group Leader
Adrian Butterfield — Musical Director, Tilford Bach Society; Associate Musical Director, London Handel Festival; Professor of Baroque Violin, Royal College of Music
Jenny Ceresa — Councillor for Arts, Heritage and Culture, East Suffolk County Council
The Countess of Euston, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk
Hester Cockcroft — Chief Executive, Awards for Young Musicians
Martin Cullingford* — Editor, Gramophone Magazine
Dame Judi Dench CH DBE FRSA — Actor
Professor Peter Dickinson — Chairman, Rainbow Dickinson Trust
Suzyi Digby OBE — Conductor, ORA Singers and music educator
Peter Donovan — Chairman, Thaxted Festival Foundation
Martin Duncan — Opera Director
David Eagle — Community Enabler, Community Action Suffolk, Broadcaster
John Elwes — Tenor, friend of Benjamin Britten
The Right Honorable The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford — Screenwriter
Emma Freud, OBE — Writer, Broadcaster, Producer of Comic Relief
Louise Gooch — Kirkley and Pakefield Councillor, East Suffolk District Council
Peter Hewitt — Chief Executive, Benslow Music
Philip Hoare — Author, Broadcaster and Curator
Sir Stephen Hough CBE — Classical Pianist, Composer and Writer
Sir Christopher Howes — Trustee Britten Pears Foundation; Director the Britten Estate Limited
Hazel Johnson — Director, Enterprise Lowestoft
Brian Kay — Founder The King's Singers; Broadcaster and Conductor
Martha Kearney — Presenter, BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme
Andrew Keener — Independent Classical Recording Producer
Paul King* — Founder and former Chair of Heritage Open Days, Lowestoft; former Chair of Kirkley People’s Forum and Founder of The Friends of Kensington Gardens
David Lawrence — Chair, Kirkley People's Forum
Mhairi Lawson — Soprano, Professor of Voice and Historical Performance, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Tasmin Little CBE — Violinist, broadcaster, music education advocate
Ben and Charmaine Llewellyn — Managers of Claremont Pier, Lowestoft
Adam Low — BAFTA and EMMY award-winning director. Films include Alan Bennett and The Habit of Art, on Auden and Britten
Benjamin Luxon CBE — Baritone
James Mayhew* — Illustrator & Children’s Author
Diana Moore* — Mezzo-Soprano. Chair of Heritage Open Days
Richard Mundy* — Chairman, Lowestoft Archaeology and Local History Society
Geoffrey Munn OBE MVO — BBC Antiques Roadshow Presenter & Historian
Ben Parry — Composer, Conductor, Director of National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Lady Penn LVO RCM — Friend and Colleague of Benjamin Britten (d.2023)
Lowestoft Players and Players Theatre
John Ramster* — Opera Director, Educator, Writer
Zeb Soanes* — Classic FM presenter and Children’s Author; patron of Awards for Young Musicians and Thaxted Festival.
Suffolk Community Foundation
Elizabeth Talbot* — BBC antiques expert, valuer, auctioneer, broadcaster
Lord and Lady Tollemache
Petroc Trelawny — Presenter, BBC Radio 3 Breakfast
Dr. Justin Vickers — Tenor, Professor of Music, Illinois State University
Melanie Vigo di Gallidoro — Councillor, Suffolk County Council
John Ward* — Singer-songwriter, folk musician and poet
Chris Warner — Composer, sound designer, orchestrator
Julian West — Head of Open Academy, Royal Academy of Music
Ruth Wharrier* — Artist and Teacher
Richard Edgar-Wilson — Opera Singer
Fraser Wilson* — Head of Performance & Public Engagement, Britten Pears Arts
Barry Wordsworth — Principal Guest Conductor, The Royal Ballet; Conductor Laureate, BBC Concert Orchestra
*denotes born, raised or currently living in Lowestoft
Named Donor Application.
To be a named donor, we kindly ask for a donation of £1000 or more.
This can be made via bank transfer:
BRITTEN AS A BOY STATUE
Lloyds Bank
SORT CODE: 30-98-97
ACCOUNT: 35686862
Or by posting a cheque to: Britten as a Boy Statue. Millbank, 7 Kirkley Park Road, Kirkley, Lowestoft. NR33 0LQ
Please complete the enquiry form in full, so that we can acknowledge receipt and ensure the correct name is displayed.
