A dollar, euro or a pound a year. It doesn’t sound much does it? Yet that is all half our members would have to have given to keep the portfolios alive for exactly one year! And what does a Dollar or a Euro buy you these days? Well it won’t buy you an average priced iPhone app ($2.99 apparently) It certainly won’t buy you a drink in a London pub, heck it won’t even buy you a loaf of bread!

We we’re heartbroken when we had to remove the portfolios, but at the time the choice was stark – remove them or close the site entirely! Despite pleas for help we’d just not raised enough. Ironically now they have gone we’ve received £160 in donations! And we’re very thankful for every penny!

So what are we doing now to bring them back?

Martin and Nikos have talked about ways of finding more reliable funding than member and public donations. One possibility is to enforce a yearly payment of $1/£1/€1. But we’re also looking at finding some kind of arts based funding and the search for sponsors (which never ends) will continue.

But we’re also looking at introducing a portfolio system that is easier to manage and uses less resources. Low volunteer levels means we need something less intensive to manage.

What can you do?

Help us! You can Donate today. We really need all the help we can get to keep the site alive… and it really doesn’t matter how small your donation is a $1/£1/€1 (or more) could make the biggest difference!

If you can’t donate perhaps you could offer to spread the word? Post about us on facebook or twitter, maybe you have material that might be suitable for an article. Or maybe you’d like to join in with the editorial team… we’re desperate for coverage of South American, Australian, Asian Eastern european and African theatre design news.