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ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 / 2018 AN AMBITIOUS THOUGHTS FROM OUR JOURNEY YOUNG TRUSTEES I saw the Young At the core of the “Trusteeship as an Roundhouse are young, opportunity to give creative artists. To have Simon Turner We think it’s vital to place young people at the something back to them as representatives Roundhouse Chair heart of our organisation, from our creative projects all the way through to decision making the Roundhouse from of change is crucial to at board level. Here, two of our Young Trustees, the top. keeping the Roundhouse who also sit on the Roundhouse Youth Advisory Board (RYAB), share why they think it’s relevant, innovative and important too. One thing that I’ve taken progressive. from the meetings is how DOM, YOUNG TRUSTEE I loved the Roundhouse before I joined here as valued the Young Trustees’ Chair. And after a year, I’ve become even more opinions are by other ” excited about the future of this wonderful place. One of the things that motivates me the most is board members. They the young people I’ve met here who are, day in, listen, consider and and day out, putting themselves out there and taking on new challenges. engage with your ideas From being on a theatre as they would any That is why I decided to take on my own “ challenge this year. Along with a group of close course to joining RYAB and other member. friends I skied to the South Pole to raise money now becoming a Young for the Roundhouse. The whole way I felt inspired by the young people I’ve met. Knowing Trustee, the Roundhouse has the money we raised would help to achieve our been a home away from home! main goal from our new five-year business plan of working with 10,000 young people a year by 2023, made this mission even more important The board meetings have to me. And I wasn’t the only one who took on a challenge this year, 133 people took on Ride the allowed me to understand Roundhouse and we had people jumping out the real foundations of an of planes and running marathons. All to help us achieve our ambitions, and all who can see how organisation and just how vital the Roundhouse is. important each and every Particularly as over half of the young people person is. who come to the Roundhouse are from the most deprived areas of the UK and 38% are BAME. We hear time and again in the media and from Rather than hypothesising, others in the industry that there isn’t a level the Roundhouse listens playing field for young people in the arts, and yet we know the role that creativity can play to young people directly, in social mobility of young people and therefore the values of the communities. This is why we have ambitions . to grow, to ensure that more young people organisation stay true have the same opportunities. AYESHA, YOUNG TRUSTEE We thank you for your support so far, and we look forward to going on an ambitious journey ” with you over the next few years. 2 3 A YEAR OUR YEAR OF IMPACT IN NUMBERS Marcus Davey, OBE Chief Executive and OUR WORK WITH OUR ARTISTIC OUR DIGITAL Artistic Director YOUNG PEOPLE PROGRAMME REACH Each year writing the annual review gives me a moment sessions on to look back and reflect on what we have achieved, to 11-25 year-olds our website think about where we’re aiming to go, and consider our engaged in creative 25,500,429 purchased a ticket for role within the London and the wider cultural landscape. 5,944 opportunities with us the first time A great energiser for the Roundhouse team is knowing 56,159 that we have increased the numbers of 11-25 year-olds we work with to just under 6,000 this year. live in the Beyond the numbers, we’ve seen hundreds of our areas ranked young people use their creativity to tell their story. From the most Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s ‘This is not a humanising deprived in revenue from email poem’ to our season And Now What? that explored the 53% £337,479 the UK performances hosted times we are living in. This has also been reflected in the incredible artistic performances we have commissioned 346 and presented. Compagnie XY’s beautiful performance showed us an extraordinary vision for what society could are BAME revenue look like. Our collaboration with the Royal Opera for The 38% from social Return of Ulysses highlighted the plight of refugees and £12,372 displaced people. And, Wayne McGregor’s and Random International’s +/-Human gave us insights in to a future tickets sold AI world. 307,532 live in Even set against a challenging world, especially for Greater London young people, I feel positive about the blossoming 87% careers of the young artists who come through our studios. of our However, we know the arts and creative industries aren’t audiences of whom come yet representative of the vibrant diversity in our society. book online from Camden 87% And what that means is we’re missing out on the rich talent, 16% the many different voices, the breadth of creativity that we could be seeing on our stages. We are committed to doing more to champion diversity and inclusion, to making change and I’m excited about the role inclusive creativity live outside will play in shaping our future. 13% London My considerable thanks go to everyone who came to the Roundhouse this year, to all our incredible donors for supporting the artists of tomorrow and helping us ensure creativity is celebrated. 4 5 FUTURE VISION: OUR FUTURE VISION: 10,000 AND BEYOND ROOM TO GROW Over the next five years the Roundhouse has given me access As part of facilitating our growth Roundhouse’s principal goal is to “ to working with 10,000 young grow the number of young people to facilities and the opportunity to people a year, planning continued we work with to 10,000 a year. work with professionals who help for our new Centre for Creative and Digital Entrepreneurs (CCDE) Our ambition is to increase the me achieve my artistic vision. for 18-30 year-olds, which is a number of creative opportunities I don’t think I’d have been able to central part of our planned new for 11-25 year-olds both here at Campus Building. the Roundhouse and out in the get that anywhere else. I also really community with our partners. respect how open the Roundhouse Currently only 1 in 10 people But more significantly we want to working in the creative industries build the number of pathways into community is for people from all come from lower socio-economic employment particularly those from kinds of backgrounds. backgrounds, and only 12.6% of the under represented backgrounds and creative industries workforce are help both diversify the creative JELLY CLEAVER, EMERGING ARTIST AND RYAB MEMBER BAME. Part of our goal in building industries and, through the pipeline the new centre is to help combat of talent, support its growth as this lack of diversity and support the fastest growing industry in the UK. ” the social mobility of young people from lower socio-economic and Our additional objectives in support BAME backgrounds. of our principal goal are: As this annual review goes to print Matt Hancock, Health Secretary and former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media Commissioning high-quality we are £5.1 million away from our and Sport, with with Marcus Davey OBE at the launch of our Centre for Digital and Creative 1 new work that pushes artistic total fundraising target of £15 million. Entrepreneurs, June 2018 boundaries and involves young people. The new Campus Building facilities will include: Championing the voice of 2 young people and helping The Centre for Creative and shape tomorrow’s leaders. 1 Digital Entrpreneurs with flexible and affordable office space for Our nation’s future will be built at the Developing and diversifying masterclasses and industry nexus“ of artistic creativity and 3 our carefully balanced mixed- networking. economy model. technical capability. So the iconic Music wing with two new state Roundhouse’s ambitious expansion plan Investing in our people and 2 of the art studios for ensembles, 4 nurturing an entrepreneurial bands and choirs. is fantastic and will help new talent and innovative culture. A triple-height studio for circus break through in our booming creative 3 and experiential theatre. and digital industries. MATT HANCOCK, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DIGITAL, ” CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT, JUNE 2018 6 7 OUR REACH In 2017/18 a total of 5,944 Every opportunity I’ve 11-25 year-olds engaged with us “ through creative projects and had has been through opportunities. Let’s take a closer the Roundhouse. INDEPENDENT look at who they were… PROJECTS CHLOE, RESIDENT ARTIST STUDIO USERS OPEN TO ALL ” GUIDED BY YOUNG VOICES WELLBEING HARDEST & SUPPORT TO REACH 1,505 PROFESSIONAL attended open access projects OPPORTUNITIES in circus, performing arts, 1,717 music, broadcast & digital 275 young people accessed our young people were supported through studios to work on their creative 1:1s with our youth support team 1,025 62 projects independently through our engaged through education NEET (not in 516 attended a drop-in session with us programme employment, education or 910 young people received Youth support teams 32 training) projects young radio presenters used a professional opportunity 94% provided support their voice to reach 33,303 455 learnt or developed a new skill engaged listeners through 513 radio shows whilst attending a drop-in and advice in 1:1s Unless you’re at music through 70% college“ it’s impossible community participants from 389 with young people, 18-25s attended industry festivals & NEET projects to get access to the focused masterclasses on topics such as 23 events went back into 16-25s were members of RYAB employment, employment, mental kind of facilities you We hosted education or health, legal rights find in the Roundhouse training 70 resident and disability support.