ITC Annual Report 2019/20
Our Mission: To facilitate the creation of excellent professional performing arts by supporting, developing and representing the people who manage and produce it.
Our Purpose: ITC performs a vital facilitating role for the performing arts encouraging and sustaining practitioners and organisations by:
• Providing comprehensive business advice and support services so that practitioners can concentrate on creating high quality, imaginative art. • Providing a strong voice for the UK performing arts sector – raising its profile and representing its interests with policy makers. • Uniting a community of performing arts professionals where sharing of good practice and peer-learning can take place. • Empowering, educating and energising arts professionals through professional development suitable to all stages of their careers.
Our Values: ITC believes that the performing arts:
• Has the power and potential to change lives – being a vehicle for emotional, intellectual and social development. • Should be available and accessible to everyone. • Succeeds most effectively when people are put before profit. • Thrives on excellent and resourceful management.
Activities
Membership, Networking & Communications
• 531 members (full list below) • Members meetings and networking events held in Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Salford, Birmingham, London & online. • Fundraising Forum • Edinburgh ITC/FST Reception 300 attenders • #ITC999 virtual Open day. • Members Directory & database, Blog, 12 newsletters & new help sheets, 10,000 twitter followers
Advice and Management Services
• 2000 + advice issues solved including: Theatre Tax Relief, redundancy, dismissals, disciplinary, dignity at work, contract disputes, debt recovery, insolvency, governance, intellectual property, immigration, work permits, organisational structure, recruitment, business planning, professional development, business planning, child protection, data protection. • 500 DBS (criminal record checks) applications processed on behalf of 87 members • 17 companies used incorporation & charitable status service • Online resources: help sheets, policies and contracts
Events, Training & Professional Development
• Governance Now Conference – November 2019 with Cultural Governance Alliance • Annual Conference – (cancelled in March 2020 due to pandemic) • Core Training Programme - 363 people attended 33 courses: Boards & Governance, Creating Contracts, Company Formation, Effective Fundraising, Finance for Leaders, Financial Management, Incorporation & Charitable status, Intellectual Property, Managing Morale & Communication, Negotiations & Contracts, People Management, Appraisals, Recruitment, Project Management, Safeguarding for Performing Arts Companies, Social Media & Digital Marketing, Starting a Performing Arts Company, Tax NI and VAT, Tour Booking, Budgeting. • General Manager, Producer and Leadership training packages • Leaders of Tomorrow – continued free management support for 30 potential leaders of colour. • 150 people attended Edinburgh seminars & debates • In house training and events: National Theatre Scotland, Federation of Scottish Theatres, Brighton Festival, Wiltshire Creative, Hall for Cornwall, Clean Break Bristol Travelling Light, The Lowry Salford, Central School of Speech & Drama, Mountview, Birkbeck, Artistic Directors of the Future.
Campaigns and Partnerships
Access to Work, Artistic Directors of the Future (ADF), Bectu, Brexit & Culture, Cultural Campaigning Network, Freelancers, Culture Declares Emergency, Cultural Governance Alliance, Cultural Commissioning (NCVO), Dignity at Work, Diversity in Casting (UK Theatre), Equity, Family Arts Campaign, Membership CEO’s Forum, PIPA (Parents in Performing Arts), Producers Round Table, All Party Parliamentary Group Wellbeing, Arts & Health, APPG Theatre, Theatres Trust, Theatre Tax Relief, Local Authorities, RSA, Touring Forum, What Next?
Staff Zoe Bateman, Imogen Burgess, Kevin Dunn, Jackie Elliman, Charlotte Jones, Thea Stanton.
Board Natalie Adams, Michael Bryher, Bhavini Goyate, Dienka Hines, Sarah Kemp, Aisha Khan, Alison King (Chair), Aled Lloyd Rees, Kate Nelson, Gareth Nicholls, Clare Cody-Richardson, Ines Tercio, Sarah-Jane Watkinson, Lucy Wood.
Members
Akram Khan Company 44 Theatre Productions Albany, The [Foreign Affairs] Almeida Theatre 1927 And Now: 20 Stories High Angel Exit Theatre Company 60 Miles by Road or Rail Angry Bear Productions Above Bounds Any One Thing Above the Stag Theatre Apples and Snakes Access All Areas ARCADE ACE Dance and Music Arch 468 Theatre Studio Action Transport Theatre Co Arts at the Old Fire Station
Arts Council England Bunny Productions
Arts Depot Bureau of Silly Ideas
Arts Marketing Association C&T
Artsadmin Cambridge Junction
Ashley Gardner Theatre School Candoco Dance Company
AsOne Theatre Productions Cap-a-Pie
ATC - Actors Touring Company Carbon Theatre
Attic Theatre Company Cardboard Citizens
Ayr Gaiety Partnership Carlisle Fringe Festival
Ballet Black Cascade Theatre Company
Bamboozle Theatre Company Cast Iron Theatre
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth Chameleon Theatre Productions
Battersea Arts Centre Chats Palace
Bedales Olivier Theatre Chelmford City Theatre
Beyond Face China Plate Theatre
Big Brum Theatre in Education Chinese Arts Now
Big Telly Theatre Company Chris Goode & Company
Bilimankhwe CJ Productions
Birds of Paradise Clean Break
BitterSuite Experiences Clearcut
Black Country Touring Clod Ensemble
Blind Summit Cloud Cuckoo Land
Bloomin' Buds Theatre Company Clubbing The Bard
Blowin'a Hooley Theatre Colab Theatre
Blue Apple Theatre Colour the Clouds
Blue Fire Theatre Company Common
Border Crossings Common Players Theatre
Boundless Theatre Common Wealth Theatre
Box Clever Company of Wolves
Box of Tricks Theatre Company Complicite
British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat Coney
Broken Puppet Theatre Company Cscape Dance Curiosity Productions Extant
Curious Monkey Fabula Arts
Cwmni Fran Wen Face Front Inclusive Theatre
Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch Farnham Maltings
Daedalus Theatre Company Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Ltd
Daisy Farris Dance Collective Feedback CIC
Dance Creative Fevered Sleep
Dancexchange, The Filskit Theatre
Dante Or Die Finborough Theatre
Dark Unicorn Productions Fingersmiths
Deafinitely Theatre Firebird Theatre
Deborah Antoinette Performance and China Blue Fish Firebrand Theatre
Discarded Nut Theatre Company Fireraisers Theatre
Diverse City Flibbertigibbet Theatre
D-Live! Theatre Fly High Stories
Dogstar Theatre Forest Forge Theatre Company dreamthinkspeak Freedom Studios
Drunken Chorus From the Heart Theatre
Dumbshow Frozen Light
East London Dance Fuel Theatre
Eastern Angles Futures Theatre Company
Echo Presents GAMUT Theatre
Eggs Collective Gary Clarke Company
Eldarin Yeong Studio Gate Theatre
Eleven Farrer House Gecko Theatre Limited
Emergency Exit Arts Golden Toad Theatre Company
English National Ballet GOLKK Theatre Company
English Touring Opera Gone to the Dogs Productions
Ensonglopedia Govanhill Theatre
Equity Graeae Theatre Company
Exchange Theatre Grand Union Music Theatre
Exit Productions Ltd Green Ginger Greenwich & Lewisham Young People's Theatre Kali Theatre
Greenwich Dance Kazzum Arts Projects
Grid Iron Kneehigh
Half Moon Young People's Theatre Konflux Theatre in Education
Hall for Cornwall K-Squared Productions
Handstand Arts Laugh Out Loud Theatre
Hanyong Theatre Company Leeds Studio
Hastings Fringe Festival LegalAliens
Heart n Soul Levantes Dance Theatre
Hiccup Theatre Librarian Theatre
Highgate Youth Theatre Lighthouse Theatre
HighTide Festival Limbik
Hijinx Theatre Little Actors Theatre Company
Historia Theatre Company Little Angel Theatre
Hive North Little Earthquake
Hope Theatre Company Live Theatre
Horse and Bamboo Theatre Living Spit
Hot Coals Theatre LJ Hope Productions
House of Mass Logos Theatre Company
HyperFusion Theatre Company London Bubble Theatre Company
Iain Stringer Works Lone Wolves
Ideas & Words Ltd Loose-Locked
Immediate Theatre Lost Dog
Immercity Love Thy Fro: The Musical
In a Rush Luca Silvestrini's Protein
In Motion Theatre Company Luxi Ltd
Inky Cloak Lynne McConway Productions
IOU Theatre Lynne Wilmot
Jason Young Lynx Theatre and Poetry
Jerwood Space Lynx Theatre in Education Projects
Junction 8 Theatre M6 Theatre Company
Just Jones & Magpie Dance Make It Write Norwich Puppet Theatre
Maketank Not Too Tame
Malkia Notnow Collective
Mandala Theatre Company Nottingham Playhouse (Participation)
Maverick Theatre Company November Club
Maya Productions NTC Touring Theatre
Meeting Ground Theatre Company Nutshell
Middle Child Ockham's Razor
Mimbre OH Productions
Mind the Gap Oily Cart
MishMash Productions Ol'Man Swanny Productions
Mittelmaier Entertainment Ltd. One Dance UK
Modalit One Day Creative Education
Montage Theatre Arts Open Clasp Theatre Company
Motionhouse Open Door
Moulded Theatre Company Open Road
Moving Souls Dance Open Sky
Moving Stories Theatre Company Operating Theatre
M-SET OurLand Productions
N-Act Theatre in Schools Outdoor Arts UK
National Dance Company Wales Outside Edge Theatre Company
National Student Drama Festival Ovalhouse
National Theatre of Scotland Page One Theatre
New Adventures Paines Plough
New International Encounter Paper Balloon Theatre Company
New Perspectives Papergang
New Shoes Theatre Parabolic Theatre
Nimba Pascal Theatre Company
No Peroxide Paul Casey Productions Limited
North East Theatre Company Pebble Gorge
North Wall Trust Pell Ensemble
Northern Stage Theatrical Productions Pentabus Theatre People Show Scarabeus Theatre
People's Palace Projects Scena Mundi Theatre
Perfect Pitch Musicals Scottee & Friends
Performers Insurance Sea-change Theatre Company
Peut-être Theatre Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts
Pied Piper Theatre Company SGA Productions
Pinecone Performance Lab Ltd Shakespeare 4 Kidz
Pins and Needles Productions Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory
Polka Theatre Shakespeare in Italy
Prime Theatre Shannon Yee
Proteus Theatre Company Ships in the Night
Punchdrunk Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Rain or Shine Theatre SICC Productions
Rapport Festival Silver Crow
Re:Act Silver Pine Productions
Reaction Theatre Makers Simon Fielder Productions
Reading Agency, The Sixteenfeet Productions
Real Talk Theatre Company Skewbald Theatre
Red Bridge Arts Slot Machine Theatre
Red Earth Theatre Slung Low
Red Ladder Theatre Company Smooth Faced Gentlemen
Red Rose Chain Soho Theatre
Redcape Theatre SON.
Ri Ri's Dance Academy Soul Sutras
Riptide Spare Tyre
Rosie Kay Dance Company Spectacle Theatre
Rough Fiction Splats Entertainment
Roundhouse Splendid Productions
Royal Court (English Stage Company) Splitmoon Theatre
Rural Nations CIC Spreadbury Limited
SAVVY Theatre Company Stan's Café
Scaffold Shakespeare Company Stolen Elephant Theatre Story Jam The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Story Pocket Theatre Ltd The Shakespeare Edit
Studio Wayne McGregor The Sparks Arts for Children
Synergy Theatre Project The Wardrobe Theatre
Take Stock Exchange Theatr Bara Caws
Take the Space (Touring Theatre Company) Theatr Iolo
Taking Flight Theatre Company Theatr Na N'Og
Talawa Theatre Company Theatre 1880
Tale Be Told Theatre Theatre Accord
Talking Birds Theatre Ad Infinitum
Tall Stories Theatre Alibi
Tamasha Theatre Company Theatre Bristol
Tamdem Theatre Theatre Hullabaloo
Teatro Vivo Theatre Lab Company
The Art of Change Theatre of Debate
The Bohemians Theatre Company Theatre Peckham
The Bone Ensemble Theatre Re
The Bread & Roses Theatre & Company Theatre Sans Frontieres
The Copenhagen Interpretation Théâtre Volière
The Coronet Theatre Theatre Workout
The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein Theatre-Rites
The Fetch Theatre Co Theatres Trust
The Heroine Chronicles ThickSkin Theatre
The Hope Street Theatre Third Angel
The Lowry This New Ground
The Music Troupe Tiata Fahodzi
The Natashas Project Time Won't Wait
The Nursery Titchfield Festival Theatre
The Old Market Toad in the Hole Theatre Company
The Paper Birds Told By An Idiot
The Place (Richard Alston) Tom Dale Company
The Playhouse Topsy Turvy Theatre Tortoise in a Nutshell Wildcard Theatre
Touretteshero WildWorks
Travelling Light Theatre Company Will & Co
Traverse Theatre Wiltshire Creative
Tribal Soul Winchester University (BA Theatre Production)
Trigger WinterWalker
Turtle Key Arts Wise Children
Tutti Frutti Productions Women and Theatre
Two Gents Productions Wonderful Beast
TwoCan Inclusive Theatre Company Workie Ticket Theatre
Tyger's HeArt mixed media arts Yardheads
UK Arts International Yellow Earth Theatre
UK Theatre Association Young Vic
Undersong Productions Z-arts
Unfolding Theatre Zest Theatre
Unity Theatre ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company
Unlimited Theatre Jarek Adams
Up The Ante Justina Aina
Upstart Theatre Kash Arshad
Upswing Sophie Austin
Urdang Academy Penny Babakhani uvaspina Sepydeh Baghaei
Vincent Dance Theatre Mina Barber
Visible Fictions Peter Beck
Vital Xposure Katie Berglof
Volcano Theatre Company Tom Brocklehurst
Warts and All Theatre Alasdair Cant
Wassail Theatre Company Laura Collier
WAWOW Melanie Combe
What's Coming out of the Box Laura Crow
White Deer Theatre Titilola Dawauda
Whitworks Adventures in Theatre Xavier de Sousa Floriana Dezou Paul Moss
Laurence Dollander Daniel Murphy
Laura Dorn Jean Nicholson
Andrew Dyson Craig Nom Chong
Gisele Edwards Jake Orr
Luke Emery Carl Parker
Kevin Fegan Sarah Emily Parkes
Sammy Fiorino Seeta Patel
Jenny Gaskell Micheal Peavoy
Ruby Glaskin Nathan Powell
Karen Goddard Lauren Reed
Bhavini Goyate Joanna Ridout
Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey Joanne Roughton-Arnold
Amy Hailwood Joseph Rynhart
Lynette Hill Claudine Sinnett
Philip Hill Jeremy Smeeth
Jameela Khan Beccy Smith
Jubeda Khatun Eleanor Snare
Daniel Kok Claire Soper
Roger Lang Thom Stanbury
Charles Law Tamsin Stanley
Roland Lee Gift Adam Taub
Frances Livesey Leanne Taylor
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson Lois Taylor
Sarah Maguire Susan Taylor
Mark Makin Keisha Thompson
Nicole May Eleanor Turney
Pauline Mayers Sarah-Jane Watkinson
Niki McCretton Sophie Woolley
Maureen McCulloch Jason Young
Maddy Morgan
Claire Morton