WELCOME
TO FESPA
The
Friends of East Suffolk Performing Arts (FESPA)
was registered as a Charity in 2007. It has two aims - a general
one and a specific one...
Our general objective is to promote and facilitate a healthy
and vigorous performing arts scene within East Suffolk for the
benefit of our community.
Our
more specific goal is to encourage and support education in
the performing arts for people in this area.
FESPA
has evolved out of a thriving group of some 1000 theatre enthusiasts
- or Friends - centred on the Southwold and Aldeburgh
Summer Theatres. The latter is a co-operative, not-for-profit
repertory initiative which has been run successfully by
Jill Freud & Company, supported by its 'Friends', since
1980.
The
decision to apply for charitable status reflected a growing
awareness that a group as enthusiastic and effective as the
Friends has proved itself to be, should begin to set
its sights on a broader platform in the interests of the cultural
well-being of the communities of East Suffolk.
For
the background and history of the Friends and a more
detailed account of FESPA's charitable remit, click
here.
