How We Can Help
The information and resources on this page, including our benefits calculator, are free for all actors and stage management. If a health issue or life event is impacting your ability to work, and you meet our eligibility criteria, we may be able to support you with a grant. We understand that it can be difficult to know where to start when thinking about finances. Our team is here for you Monday – Friday from 9 am – 5 pm, if you’d like to talk to someone about your situation.
Financial Support Grants
If your health or a recent life event is impacting your ability to work, we may be able to provide financial support with day-to-day expenses, lessen your immediate financial concerns, and give you some breathing space to access other support you might be entitled to, so you can focus on getting yourself back on your feet.
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Information & Resources
We've created resources which can help with some of the most common financial challenges we see actors and stage management face, such as debt, budgeting, and accessing benefits you may be entitled to.
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School Essentials Grant 2026
Actors and stage management can apply for a one-off grant to help with school-related costs and make the summer period a little bit easier.
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Financial Advice
Pennysmart support people across the UK. They provide a holistic financial wellbeing service through advice, casework, and implementation support. We can refer actors and stage management to support from Pennysmart.
Find out moreTry our benefit calculator
Enter your details, and you will receive an estimate of your entitlement to benefits.
You may find it helpful to collect information about your income, savings, pensions and any existing benefits you are entitled to. If you have a partner, you may wish to do this for them too, before using the calculator.
See how to use the calculator for more tips.
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Pennysmart support people across the UK. They provide a holistic financial wellbeing service through advice, casework, and implementation support.
We can refer actors and stage management to support from Pennysmart. To enquire about accessing this support, please complete this short form.
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Useful resources
We have launched our new 'School Essentials Grant' for actors and stage managers with one or more children of school age.
Actors' Trust is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dame Penelope Keith, former president of the Actors' Benevolent Fund.
Key findings from our latest governance review.
Member Trustee Elections 2026
Were delighted to share that Actors Trust received two major awards at the Transform Awards in March.
Gifts in Wills play a vital role in the future of Actors Trust and our ability to expand and broaden the services and resources we can offer actors and stage managers in need. We are most grateful to those who have come forward in the past 12 months to let us know they have left a gift in their Will.
New research from Actors Trust reveals insights into the UKs acting and stage management workforce, highlighting financial insecurity, wellbeing challenges and career realities across stage and screen.
Actors and stage managers can now access up to six fully subsidised, confidential counselling sessions through our new mental health and wellbeing support service, delivered in partnership with Wellbeing in the Arts to provide specialist support tailored to the pressures of the performing arts industry.
Andrew was one of those rare people whose presence made the room steadier, kinder and somehow more meaningful. To speak of him only as a distinguished Shakespearean actor, teacher and mentor, though true, is far from sufficient. Andrew was also a man of great humanity.
Actors' Trust is inviting designers to submit artwork for its 2026 card range. Were looking for creative Christmas card designs as well as blank cards suitable for first night or good-luck messages.
Actors' Trust and BAPAM are delighted to bring you a series of free webinars to help you support your wellbeing.
Read how research, member feedback, and the Boards vision informed our repositioning in our Chair and CEO's letter.