Fevered Sleep

What Fevered Sleep does

Fevered Sleep is a UK-registered charity (number 1069144) and private company (number 03524224), founded in 1996 and headquartered at 15A Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ. The organization creates experimental performance works, installations, films, publications, and participatory projects for general public audiences and for children, employing a research-led methodology that develops work from questions rather than predetermined answers. It operates with 1-10 staff under Co-Artistic Directors Sam Butler and David Harradine, with Dimity Nicholls recently appointed as Executive Director. Thematic strands span childhood, time, grief, care, interspecies relationships, and death, addressed through formats including theatre, dance, installation, public art, and film.

The portfolio includes long-running branded projects such as This Grief Thing (a shop-based grief engagement initiative since 2018, with pop-up shops and Grief Gatherings across Preston, Middlesbrough, Manchester, Nottingham, and other UK cities), Men & Girls Dance (since 2015; presented internationally at Skånes Dansteater in Malmö, Sweden in 2018), Time Keeps The Drummer (current flagship, 2023-present), We Are Not Finished and its accompanying film, Sheep Pig Goat (commissioned by Wellcome Collection, 2017-2020), The Institute of Everything (Clifton Green Primary School partnership, 2018-2022), Brilliant, Love And Not Knowing, Care Is..., and Gestures. Distribution occurs through UK touring productions at venues and festivals including Brighton Festival, school-partnership delivery, occasional international presentations, and a Squarespace-built e-commerce shop selling books and merchandise (e.g., An Infinite Line Brighton at £10.00). The website and branding were rebuilt with design partners Dust Collective and developers Noughts & Ones.

Revenue is generated primarily through charitable grants and donations from a diversified funder base including Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Jerwood Arts, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Ernest Cook Trust, The Goldsmiths' Company, John Ellerman Foundation, John Lyon's Charity, The Robertson Trust, and Arts Council Wales. Additional streams include commissioned work for festivals, venues and institutions (Brighton Festival, Wellcome Collection, schools), individual donations and patronage, and small-scale product sales via the online shop. Pricing varies: events and workshops are typically free, while publications are sold at unit pricing of approximately £10. The organization markets through a blog, social media (Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok), email newsletter, and earned coverage in arts press including The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, and The Argus.

Name

Fevered Sleep

Legal name

Fevered Sleep

Website

https://feveredsleep.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fevered Sleep is a UK charity founded in 1996 that creates experimental performances, installations, films, and participatory art projects for general audiences and children, serving communities across multiple UK cities through research-led programming supported by grants and commissions.

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Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Charitable Funding and Grants: Fevered Sleep is a registered charity (number 1069144) that receives support from trusts, foundations, and Arts Council England to fund its research-led art practice.
2. Commissioned Work: The organization creates commissioned works for festivals, venues, and institutions such as Brighton Festival, Wellcome Collection, and schools.
3. Product Sales: Sale of books, publications, and merchandise through their online shop (e.g., An Infinite Line Brighton book at £10).
4. Donations: Individual donations and patronage from supporters to support ongoing work.

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Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fevered Sleep is a UK-registered charity that creates experimental performances, installations, films, books and digital art for adults and children. The organisation operates as a research-led arts practice producing commissioned touring works, participatory community projects, grief support gatherings, school-based research projects, and publications available through an online shop.

Product overview

Fevered Sleep is a UK-based arts organization that creates interdisciplinary performance works, installations, films, and research projects. Their portfolio spans multiple art forms including dance, theatre, film, installation, photography, and public art, often with touring and participatory elements. Major projects include Time Keeps The Drummer (exploring time), This Grief Thing (grief support through public art), Men & Girls Dance (celebrating intergenerational connections), We Are Not Finished (examining childhood and rights), and Sheep Pig Goat (investigating interspecies empathy). The organization also operates an online shop selling publications and merchandise related to their work, and maintains a blog sharing research and perspectives. Projects frequently incorporate community participation, education, and research components, with themes ranging from childhood and care to ageing, grief, and the environment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Brands

• This Grief Thing: A shop-based project exploring grief, providing space for conversations about loss and mourning through a retail experience format.
• Men & Girls Dance
• The Institute of Everything
• Sheep Pig Goat
• Brilliant

Products and services

• Time Keeps The Drummer A current touring performance project exploring how time is made and remade, examining temporal experiences for children and young audiences.
• This Grief Thing A long-running public art and touring project that creates spaces for conversations about grief, loss, and bereavement, including pop-up shops and Grief Gatherings.
• Men & Girls Dance A dance performance celebrating the rights of children and adults to be together in positive ways, touring nationally and internationally.
• We Are Not Finished A dance and theatre touring project exploring childhood, children's rights, protest, and politics, developed as a laboratory format.
• We Are Not Finished (The Film) A documentary film capturing the We Are Not Finished project, exploring joy, dance, community, play, protest, and rights.
• Sheep Pig Goat A creative research studio exploring interspecies empathy and communication through improvised encounters between human performers and animal spectators.
• The Institute of Everything A year-long research project with Clifton Green Primary School in York exploring creativity and critical thinking in education, funded by Wellcome Trust.
• Brilliant A film and stage performance exploring bedtime, childhood, darkness, fear, light, sleep, and the moon as a rite of passage.
• Love And Not Knowing A project exploring themes of children, care, love, animals, and place, running from 2021-2024.
• Care Is... A project focused on children and care, developed during 2023-2024.
• Fevered Sleep Online Shop An online retail platform selling books, publications, films, DVDs, and merchandise related to the organisation's artistic projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Grief Gatherings have engaged diverse communities across multiple UK cities including Preston, Middlesbrough, Manchester, and Nottingham.
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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, supporting and major.

• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFevered Sleep is an Associate Artist at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. This partnership allows the organization to develop research-led art in academic contexts and helps Central build bridges to the creative industries.
• Clifton Green Primary SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYear-long research partnership on The Institute of Everything project exploring creativity and critical thinking in primary schools.
• Dust CollectivesupportingTechnology or IntegrationDesign collective based in Sheffield that designed the organization's new website and branding.
• Noughts & OnessupportingTechnology or IntegrationDevelopment partners who built the Fevered Sleep website on Squarespace.
• Brighton FestivalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommissioned An Infinite Line: Brighton in 2008.
• Wellcome CollectionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommissioned Sheep Pig Goat as part of the Making Nature exhibition.
• DansehallernesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeading institution for contemporary choreographic art in Copenhagen that hosted the Taking Part in the Arts? conference.
• Skånes DansteatermajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPresented Men & Girls Dance in Malmö, Sweden in 2018.

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Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/feveredsleep
• Facebookfacebook.com/feveredsleep
• Instagraminstagram.com/feveredsleep
• TikToktiktok.com/@feveredsleep

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Profiles5 records

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