Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre

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Funded on
19 Dec 2023

We want to provide accessible and inspiring theatre making opportunities for children/young people in the Deaf community to build confidence, creative skills and support wellbeing.

£5,830 Raised of £4,173

32 Backers

139%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 19 December 2023 | Delivered on 26 July 2024

£5,830

RAISED

32

BACKERS

47

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£3,713

From North East Combined Authority

£20

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund

Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund donated £1,020

Arts Council England

Arts Council England donated £250

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More about our impact

Volunteering, jobs & education

Since April 2024 we have grown our team, with 2 young deaf artists joining the delivery team alongside Creative Associate, EJ Raymond. This has brought new skills - illustration and photography - into what we can offer as activities for the group, as well as developing opportunities for local deaf creatives.

Arts, culture & heritage

Delivering North East Deaf Youth Theatre has made a big difference to Unfolding Theatre's approach to making deaf inclusive theatre. It has inspired the development of a deaf inclusive version of our new show, Here Be Dragons, which we will perform at Benton Park Primary for children at Newcastle schools' deaf units in May 2025. We have learned so much from the children and their families that inspires us every day!

Activity, health and leisure

North East Deaf Youth Theatre supports the children to have fun and be active, developing social connections and friendships with other deaf children. Parents have fed back to us how important this social time is for wellbeing, communication skills and confidence.

https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/

“Unfolding Theatre is one of the North East’s most precious cultural assets, making eclectic big-hearted performance work rooted in community participation and co-production.” North East Bylines

Unfolding Theatre inspires people through big-hearted, responsive and impactful theatre and community-based creative projects. Since 2008, we have won awards for our work with under-served communities (NCCPE Engaging Young People Award 2014, Journal Culture Awards: Performance of the Year 2010/2017, Arts and Business Partnerships 2019).

Our mission is to bring together surprising combinations of people who are representative of the world we live in. This enables us to generate remarkable theatre for national audiences, reflecting the stories of people from a range of communities.

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Unfolding Theatre became a charity in 2016. Our vision has three core aims: 1) more people are leading happier, more creatively fulfilled lives, 2) mainstream theatre better reflects England’s diversity and drives excellence and 3) people with different life experiences are better connected.

We aim to reach people of all ages and backgrounds and specialise in engaging with people that do not typically engage with theatre and the arts. Our current programme of work engages older people (50+), children and young people (including many of whom are neuro-diverse and/or d/Deaf), schoolchildren, adults living in areas of low arts engagement and socio-economic disadvantage, families and antenatal mothers.

Since 2018, we have carried out 8,600 creative engagements with over 3,500+ participants through 645 community-based activities, workshops and sessions. We have reached 31,500+ live audiences and 23,000+ digital audiences.

Project Owner: Unfolding Theatre The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.