Without Walls Annual Accounts 24-25
7 April 2026
Without Walls is pleased to present our annual accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025.
Transparency is a core value for Without Walls. We are committed to sharing details of our financial performance and present a summary of our income and expenditure in 2024/25 below. We have published this information on an annual basis since becoming an National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) of Arts Council England (ACE) in 2018.
This year we were proud to:
- Premiere 13 new outdoor shows at the nine festivals in our Artistic Directorate network
- Support a further 235 performances of 26 shows at the 19 festivals in our Touring network.
- Invest in the early stage development of six new projects through our Blueprint R&D programme.
- Invite 18 creatives to take part in the 2024 edition of our Discover programme, welcoming artists new to outdoor arts. The programme continues to be one of our most successful projects, highly rated by participants and receiving more applications each year.
- Further develop our Associate placement programme focused on skills development in outdoor arts.
- Increase our investment in Audience Engagement projects, revising our approach to encourage festivals to deliver activity in partnership, and to develop longer term projects across two years.
- Embed our Access and Sustainability Advisors in the development of supported projects to ensure that these considerations are present from the start of the creative process.
- Host the second iteration of the Without Walls Forum at 101 Outdoor Arts, attended by 72 participants from across our network and partners, encouraging knowledge sharing and discussion on the key issues facing the sector.
- Continue the development of our Artists Advisory Group with one member advising on the selection of the 2025 programme.
Without Walls and its Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to thank Arts Council England for their continued support, both financial and strategic, and to thank all of the festivals, partners, artists, and freelancers that we have worked with over the past year.
The full report can be found via the link below.
Image credits:
Patois by Jeanefer Jean-Charles © David Levene