News Story

Over the last 12 months, we have been celebrating our 20th anniversary by doing as much outreach as possible, offering workshops to schools and young people, building new relationships, giving away tickets in our monthly social media competitions and so much more! Now that our 20th anniversary has come to an end, we wanted to share with you some of the incredible outreach and activities our members and donors have helped us to achieve.

What a wonderful way to celebrate our 20th year it has been! Focussing our energies outwards this year, making connections and new friends of the theatre has reinvigorated our community engagement.

Man with a short beard and is dressed in a dark suit jacket over a white shirt. He stands confidently with a smile. The background features a wooden wall with a geometric design.
Jonny McClean, Head of Community Engagement

Celebrate some of our achievements this year:

  • Accomplished approximately 20 new ventures with community partners
  • Approximately 21,358 hours of creative engagement for young people provided
  • Approximately 2630 school children reached with arts and cultural activities
  • Launched our 3-year partnership with Burntwood Town Council
  • Staged 2 main house community and youth productions
  • Launched 5 new youth theatre groups
  • Launched Ignite - our brand new schools' theatre festival

Thank you for providing myself and our students with the incredible experience that was Ignite! The students were absolutely buzzing about their performance and how they'd had the chance to perform on the stage of their local theatre [...] thank you for the process. It was so well planned with the teacher and student experience at the heart of all you did

Sarah Croft (Head of Drama) at Lichfield Cathedral School