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Feb 2025

Child in performance workshop

9 February - 30 March, 2025

Join our Sunday Shed drop-in workshop for ages 4-7, featuring new weekly themes with engaging drama, dance, music, and art activities!

Sunday Shed session with child reading script

9 February - 30 March, 2025

Join our Sunday Shed performance project for children aged 7-11 and enhance music, dance, and singing skills.

two performers acting on stage

9 February - 23 March, 2025

These workshops are relaxed and informal sessions that will explore text and character using drama games and improvisation techniques. 

two performers on stage

9 February - 30 March, 2025

Join the Young People's Performance Project for young people age 11-18. Engaging workshops where you'll learn scripts and get stuck into rehearsals. No experience necessary!

Adults performing with string and ribbon

9 February - 23 March, 2025

Explore your favourite songs from the musicals in this Sunday Shed performance skills workshop.

Jo Collins performs at Jo Collins and Friends

9 February, 2025

The immensely talented Co-Founder of Chickenshed Jo Collins invites guests for a thrilling set of eclectic covers from pop to soul, funk, folk and more.

Friends of Chickenshed

Friends of Chickenshed play a vital role in funding our work to create an inclusive society and securing our future, so that we can be here for the children, young people and communities we work with.

By giving regularly, you are helping us to changes lives and create a better world for us all to live in. 

Become a friend of Chickenshed
Chickenshed winning Golden Buzzer on Britain's Got Talent

"I love every single thing that you stand for and what you represent. Inclusivity is so important. Every body feeling represented, and you do that in abundance."

“Seeing young people on stage, and some of them even looked like me... It was absolutely mindblowing for me, and it got me so excited about theatre. I fell in love with Chickenshed at that moment.”

"Chickenshed - so called because it started life in a disused chicken shed in Barnet - has, over half a century, grown into one of UK theatre's most important arts organisations while never losing its core commitment to diversity and inclusivity."

Who we are

We are exceptionally lucky to have an incredibly devoted community at Chickenshed, without whom we would not be able to achieve our mission of creating entertaining and outstanding theatre that celebrates diversity and inspires positive change.

chickenshed young people perform at Go Greek Festival

Creating wonder out of chaos

Through our productions, our performance training, our education courses, and our outreach projects, our mission is to create wonder out of chaos and change out of challenge.

Support us

Every year, we support over 15,000 children and young people, with over 60% facing isolation due to mental/physical health, bullying, disabilities, or caregiving roles. Chickenshed becomes their sanctuary – a second home.

Join our team of superstar supporters and volunteers, helping us shine as their beacon of hope.

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