“I’d like to say a big thank you for giving me the opportunity to perform. This experience has made me feel magical.”
YOUTH TROUPES COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES
Our Youth Troupe community programmes are at the heart of what we do.
We offer after-school (and sometimes holiday) workshops for children who are deemed to have experienced distress as a result of adverse childhood experiences. Through local partnerships, we work in dedicated theatre and arts spaces, for workshops and performance. In our Youth Troupes, children receive one-to-one mentoring from a volunteer, home-made food and the chance to take part in all sorts of creative activities. These groups are led by an experienced theatre-arts facilitator and an artist-therapist.
We accept referrals from:
- Mainstream schools and alternative education providers
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (Tiers 1-4)
- Additional psychotherapy and psychology interventions
- Children’s services teams including safeguarding, Early Help, and Looked After teams
Referrals can be accepted from parents, but we ask for a professional to support the referral.
Our current projects are:
East London Youth Troupe for 7-12 year olds
Our Youth Troupe in partnership with Queen Mary University.
This takes place 4-6pm on Wednesdays at:
BLOC Arts Lab, Queen Mary University London (QMUL), Mile End Road, E1 4NS
Travel to and from school/home is provided within Tower Hamlets
If you would like to make a referral, please email emily@theatretroupe.org for more information or a referral form.
Southwark London Youth Troupe for 7-11 year olds
NEW PROGRAMME STARTING JUNE 2026 for children aged 7-11
We’re thrilled to be starting SLYT for children in Southwark soon.
SLYT will take place on Mondays in term time, 4-6pm
Travel to and from the workshops will be provided for anyone living in Southwark
If you would like to make a referral, please email emily@theatretroupe.org for more information or a referral form.
OUR OTHER WORK
ATTUNE Research Project
ATTUNE was a major project led by Oxford and Falmouth Universities and funded by the UK Research Council (2021-2025). Its remit was to explore the service needs of young people in England with Adverse Childhood Experiences through an arts-focused methodology. In Phase one, young people from settings across the country used dance, animation, zines and other art forms to give their opinions and voices about the mental health interventions they receive and what they want from the professionals who treat them. Theatre Troupe created a short play interpreting the research findings from Phase One, designed as an interactive training tool for mental health and education professionals and performed by two neurodivergent actors.
More Than Just Survive had its premiere in April 2024. If you’re interested in this interactive training model for your team, please get in touch.