Thank-yous
The people and organisations who hold us up.
BBJC is a small operation kept aloft by a wide circle. Funders who took a chance on us, partners who shared their rooms and their lists, friends-of-the-club who showed up when we needed them. This page is for naming them.
Funders
The ones who paid for the lights.
The club runs on the generosity of funders who backed us with real money and real trust. With thanks to:
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- #iwill
- LGBT+ Futures Equity Fund
- Sovereign Network Group
- Berkshire Community Foundation
Partners
The ones who shared their rooms.

In good company
Rooms we've shared, people we've learned from.
Over the years the club has played, made and gathered alongside a wide circle of theatres, galleries, venues and fellow community organisations. A roll-call of good company:
- Kids on the Green
- The Black British Theatre Awards
- Soho Theatre
- The National Theatre
- The Royal Court
- The Lyric Hammersmith
- The Jazz Café
- Outside Edge
- Frieze Art Fair
- This Is My Culture
- Loving Men
- Young Westminster
- The British Library
- Black Queer Connects
- Black Men Talk Health
- Black Men Walk and Talk
- The House of Rainbow
- The African Art Centre
- The Garrick Theatre
- PIRC
- ENO
- Black Gay Ink
- The Barbican
- Erasmus Programme
- Hampton Court
- We Are Queer Britain
- UK Black Pride
- Black Thrive
- The Old Diorama Arts Centre
- The Black Queer Collective
- The Yellow Wembley
- NAZ
- THT
- The Batty Mama
We name funders, partners and friends-of-the-club here with their permission — the ones who paid for the lights, shared their rooms, and turned up when we needed them. The list grows as the club does.