Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre

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%

Updates

Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre published their Delivery Report!2 years ago

28 Donations worth £5472 years ago

Thank you for supporting North East Deaf Youth Theatre!3 years ago

Thank you so much to all our backers for supporting North East Deaf Youth Theatre! By donating and backing our project, you have also helped us unlock match funding from the North of Tyne Fund. This means we have now exceeded our fundraising target and are now able to support the delivery of our monthly drama sessions too. Thanks again for your kind support and we hope to see you at an Unfolding Theatre performance or event soon. Thank you! Unfolding Theatre

Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre hit its fundraising target!3 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

Crowdfund North of Tyne Fund - organisations and constituted groups pledged £3,7133 years ago

3 years ago We've hit our target

Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre joined: Crowdfund North of Tyne 3 years ago

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30 backers!

30 people have backed Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre!3 years ago

Whoop, 30 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Support North East Deaf Youth Theatre has reached 50% of its target!3 years ago

Ann Marie Ellison pledged £3003 years ago

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.