Become a Friend
Step up your love of ballet
Satisfy your behind-the-scenes curiosity. Hear straight from our dancers. Get closer than ever before. But that’s only half of what it means to become a Friend of Scottish Ballet.
Your support as a Silver Friend or Gold Friend helps commission brand new productions, take our work into the world, from schools to care homes and bring the life-transforming beauty of ballet to even more people.
Become a Friend by choosing an option below, or contact Phoebe Elliott-Avouris on friends@scottishballet.co.uk or 0141 331 2931.
Free Friend
You’re invited backstage.
And it’s on us.
- Enjoy exclusive updates with our Friends-only newsletter
- Book Friends-only events
- Watch our films before anyone else
There’s a lot going on at Scottish Ballet. And a lot we know you’d hate to miss.
Your backstage pass is our exclusive email newsletter. It’s packed with the latest updates on Scottish Ballet tours, films, classes and offers.
But reading only takes you so far. As a Free Friend, you have access to exclusive theatre and online events – your chance to get closer than ever before.
Silver Friend
See more.
See rehearsals.
See the difference you’ll make.
- Jump the queue with first-in-line access to performance tickets
- Grab a ballet class place before anyone else
- Meet the people behind the ballets
- Includes all our Free Friends’ benefits
- £5 a month (£60 a year)
‘Sold out’. Two words you’ll never see again when you can swoop in to secure your favourite seats before Scottish Ballet performances go on general sale.
You’ll also be invited to in-person meet-the-team events at your local theatre – and to rehearsals at our home in Glasgow.
Then there’s your copy of Backstage, Scottish Ballet’s magazine. We’ll deliver it to your door twice a year: it’s packed with interviews, photographs, articles and news.
Gold Friend
Join us on stage.
Join us for drinks.
Join us in taking ballet further.
- Peek behind the scenes with a backstage tour before our winter performance
- Enjoy drinks and conversation with our dancers and team
- Includes all our Silver Friends’ benefits
- £20.83 a month (£250 a year)
Our dancers and choreographers couldn’t do it without you – every new production relies on the generosity our Gold Friends.
Feel the heat of the lights and learn the tricks of the trade with an onstage tour at your local theatre every winter. Enjoy a drink and get to know our team before curtain up. With complimentary tickets for online events, you can get even closer to everything we do.
And with your choice of souvenir programme delivered to your door every year, you’ll receive something extra to help remember the difference you’ve made.
Young Friend
Begin your ballet journey.
- Especially for under 16s
- Happy birthday! – your very own video message from a dancer
- Wall-envy, with a tour poster signed by our company dancers
- Includes all our Silver Friends’ benefits
- £2 a month (£24 a year)
It’s almost impossible to imagine life as a professional ballet dancer. Almost.
With updates from our Young Friend Ambassadors – two Scottish Ballet dancers – we’ll take you even further into your ballet journey. Who knows where it could lead you next?
As well as your signed poster and birthday video message, your collectable pin badge will let you show your love for ballet with pride. (It’s the perfect size for your jacket, ballet bag or school bag.)
Friends FAQs
Upgrading? Renewing? Want to update your details? Everything you need is here.
Upcoming events
Find out what’s next in our line-up of Friends-only exclusive events.
See Friends Events
Leave a gift in your Will
Ballet is the gift that never leaves us. Choose to name the Scottish Ballet Endowment Fund in your Will, and you’ll be helping us share this precious gift with many others.
