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What projects does facilitate?

Schools Showcase: Schools Showcase 2011 was the fifth such event has run. It involved 106 students from 9 schools - 5 mainstream secondary schools, 2 special educational needs schools and 2 primary schools. The two performances were seen by almost 500 people.

Youth Theatre: Supported by The Taylor Family Foundation, our Youth Theatre provides a platform where young people can learn new skills, make new friends - and have fun! Two groups are run, FREE to participants, involving some 40-50 young people each Sunday. Debut's main production 'Fugee' will be showing at New Wimbledon Theatre Studio on 3rd & 4th February 2012. Encore's main production on 29th, 30th and 31st March 2012 at the same venue.

A Dickens of a Life - to be performed at New Wimbledon Theatre on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st June 2012, celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens. The production will involve up to 400 young people from Local schools and community groups. The overall project will run for 18 weeks as the participants become involved in all aspects of the production. They will receive master classes in their chosen performance styles eg Puppetry, Circus Skills etc - as well as the technical aspects of stage design, production and marketing.

Express Yourself: SAFE Project is designed directly to address the anger of participants through psychotherapeutic intervention. It will offer effective anger-management strategies, helping students gain new skills and confidence in the achievements. Students will engage and participate in a series of Art, Drama and Movement therapy based workshops which will aim to develop the students' awareness of their own anger and how they express it through a series of workshops.

Express Yourself: Cedar Base Project are workshops for girls between 11-15 attending Richards Lodge who have significant language impairment and communications problems. To date the feedback from staff has been overwhelmingly positive and the girls have improved measurably in their confidence, focus and skills.

Beginners Please: is a programme which targets groups of young people who are unlikely to have seen a live theatre performance. 12 young people attended Jungle Book in November and a follow up workshop for 5 young persons with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The next phase will commence in June 2012.