Encore is a scheme for community groups and organisations that seeks to find new ways to open up our work to everyone, whatever their circumstances and whatever barriers they encounter to engaging fully with the arts.
With more than 100 groups and organisations in the scheme, members are offered free or heavily subsidised tickets to our work in Leeds, plus occassional access to workshops, taster performances and invitations to bespoke events. Since it began in 2013, the Encore community scheme has welcomed more than 14,000 attendees to our performances.
“It was great to take time out for themselves and how happy they felt to see their children smiling and laughing. None of the attendees had been to the Howard Assembly before and they said how much they would like to go again. Both adults and children left exhausted with all the dancing they had done and one commented what a great workout it had been!”
– Enfield Centre on A Love Revolution
Entertaining service users at Richmond Hill Elderly Action © Justin Slee
