Charity Overview
A small room with an international reputation, the Almeida is a theatre that began life as a literary and scientific society - complete with library, lecture theatre and laboratory. From the very beginning, the building existed to investigate the world. Today, Almeida make bold new work that asks big questions: of plays, of theatre and how we live.
Alongside the work the Almeida Theatre put on stage, the charity also runs an extensive learning programme, Almeida Projects. One of the key aims is to continually raise the standard of theatre practitioners working with young people. Run for, by and with young people the theatre works with over 3,000 young people every year in Islington and its neighbouring London boroughs. Trainee Workshop Leaders make up one half of Almeida’s workforce delivering its schools programme.
Almeida Projects works primarily in Islington, Hackney and Haringey - all of which are complex, culturally diverse, and socially and economically deprived. Islington is a borough of social extremes, where London’s richest and poorest residents exist side by side.