Birmingham Hippodrome Annual Review 2023-24

ANNUAL REVIEW

2023-2024

Our Vision

“A distinctive, world-class Birmingham cultural scene with the Hippodrome at its heart”

Our Mission

“Providing that “goosebumps” feeling through memorable and extraordinary experiences”

OUR VALUES

People focused Inclusive Progressive Inspiring Sustainable

We bring individuals, groups and communities together to share those wonderful ‘goosebumps’ moments: emotive, world-class, cultural experiences that ignite imaginations and inspire future generations.

We care deeply for our staff, audiences, volunteers, partners, participants and artists and are dedicated to ensuring that any Hippodrome experience is a positive one. Our people are the beating heart of Birmingham Hippodrome.

We are ambitious for ourselves, our partners and our city region. We aim to be the best at what we do, always looking for new ways to advance, improve and evolve whilst being mindful of our rich and vibrant history.

We provide a safe and inclusive space for expression and creativity, priding ourselves on being collaborative and reflective of our city region. Inclusion is integral to everything that we do and is central to our decision-making.

We take care with our actions, safeguarding the long-term sustainability of Birmingham Hippodrome through our work, environmental responsibilities and business practices.

Welcome

As you’ll have seen already, our mission is all about providing those ‘goosebumps’ moments: that indescribable feeling when watching a show, attending a festival or being part of an inspiring workshop. Goosebumps fire up emotions and spark creativity, imaginations and conversations, providing memories that last a lifetime, and we certainly delivered them in abundance over the last twelve months.

You’ll see in this annual review the focus of our five-year plan, including ambitions to become the most accessible venue in the UK, a commitment to creating original productions with a focus on new musicals, establishing a new artistic hub and ensuring we continue to offer our audiences and artists world-class productions and facilities.

As part of this commitment, in 2023 we proudly launched two new departments: New Musical Theatre and New Work & Artist Development. Together the teams are transforming the Hippodrome into a place artists and creatives have begun to call home, while developing new productions and increasing opportunities for West Midlands artists to create work in the city.

We went into the summer with a spectacular 11-week run of Disney’s The Lion King, welcoming over 150,000 audiences who were amongst the first to try our new pre-show dining experience in our refurbished Circle Lounge. We opened in August, working with Birmingham-based Chef Angelina Adamo on a new menu of small plates, sharing platters and a stunning afternoon tea, and have been delighted with the response to our new offer.

We ended our summer season with our August bank holiday festival Birmingham Weekender. This year saw the festival grow with over 360 performances and installations across the city, from Bullring & Grand Central down to Southside, attracting over 125,000 people. It was also our most accessible festival to date, with carefully crafted support for visually impaired, deaf, disabled and neurodiverse audiences. We hosted communities from under-served groups in economically deprived neighbourhoods and our incredible Young Advocates were embedded in the planning and delivery of the festival, curating a programme for their own stage.

Alongside working with our Young Advocates, we supported over 40,000 young people in our Hippodrome Education Network partner schools and launched our Teachers Theatre Network, created for teachers and educators of any discipline to connect with the Hippodrome and connect with other educators, artists and creatives.

2023 ended with our giant pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk and it really was a spectacular one. Panto is a very special time for all of us at the Hippodrome, and it turned out that just under 120,000 of you agree! It was a record-breaking run and our best attended panto in over 20 years, so a huge thank you to everyone who joined us over the festive season.

This annual review details an extraordinary year, only made possible by the extraordinary people we work and collaborate with. We would like to give enormous thanks to the entire team at Birmingham Hippodrome as well as our board, partners, members and supporters for their care and commitment. Together, we know we will make our 125th year a special one.

Catherine Mallyon, Chair, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust and Jon Gilchrist, Artistic Director & CEO

604 performances

623,145 people attended a show

1,819,847 social media engagements

183, 605 followers on social media

135 productions

66,933 new bookers welcomed

OUR IMPACT 2023-24

4,269 donations to our Arts Matter! fundraising campaign

7,300 Hippodrome Education Network students attended a performance

168 people volunteered with us

5 Associate Companies and Creative Partners

44 schools in our Hippodrome Education Network

41,028

young people participated in our Hippodrome Education Network OUR IMPACT IN 2023-24

4,258 sessions delivered for young people

21 Young Advocates

1,300 Hippodrome Creatives members

207,

000 people attended our festivals

642 artists engaged with us

71 Assisted access performances

HIPPODROME UNLOCKED EDUCATION,

YOUNG PEOPLE, ACCESS & COMMUNITY Education

In 2023-24 we worked with 44 partner SEN, Primary and Secondary schools in our Hippodrome Education Network, giving over 40,000 young people the opportunity to connect with theatre both in school and at the Hippodrome.

In January we launched our Teachers Theatre Network. Over the course of a year, hundreds of teachers will attend productions at the Hippodrome, expand their knowledge of theatre, make new connections and advocate for the power of theatre for young people.

Our work experience and SEN work experience programmes continued to thrive, welcoming more young people than ever before to work with departments across the organisation and learn about careers in the arts.

“We always feel so welcome when we visit the Hippodrome and we are truly grateful for the wonderful opportunities available to us.”

Halesowen College

HIPPODROME UNLOCKED

Young People

In partnership with theatremaker Fateha Begum and Unislam, we launched First Steps Poetry. Over six weeks, 10 young people aged 14-22 worked with Fateha and spoken word poet Sipho Eric Ndlovu to develop their writing and engage with live poetry, culminating in a performance at Unislam.

Our Musicals Youth Theatre groups had a busy year, with our senior group performing new musical Imaginary in our Patrick Studio in July to sell out audiences.

The 2023/24 cohort of Young Advocates continued to programme our free Young Community Drop In Sessions. Developed as a creative outlet for people aged 14+ to relax and connect with others, each session invites inspiring individuals working in the creative industries to host workshops exploring a range of art forms, skills and careers.

The Young Advocates were also embedded in the planning and delivery of Birmingham Weekender, working with the Hippodrome team to curate a programme for their own stage.

Access and Community

Birmingham Weekender 2023 was our most accessible festival yet with carefully crafted support for visually impaired, deaf, disabled and neurodiverse audiences. We hosted communities from under-served groups in economically deprived neighbourhoods, working with National Express West Midlands and West Midlands Metro to negotiate discounted travel for attendees. We also hosted two dedicated access hubs to ensure all visitors to Weekender could easily find information and support from our access hosts. The festival’s access provision was recognised as national best practice by Without Walls Consortium.

Through a partnership nurtured by our new Community team, we delivered a Young Community Drop In at the Legacy Centre of Excellence in February, boosting youth engagement alongside Never Grow Old, a new show written by Birmingham artists Casey Bailey and Corey Weekes.

In July, we partnered with digital agency Substrakt and leading authority on accessible ticketing Nimbus Disability to transform the online booking experience for our customers with access needs.

The online booking journey now includes more information on accessibility including the number of steps to seats, aisle and wheelchair positions and a comprehensive view from every seat. At the same time, we also launched a new access registration scheme, enabling customers to book seats associated with their requirements more easily. This includes booking wheelchair seats, essential companions and easier access to the most appropriate seats for captioned, BSL interpreted and audio described performances. We have over 3,000 people registered so far.

We proudly hosted 71 assisted performances in 2023-24, welcoming over 31,000 people to Relaxed, audio described, BSL interpreted and captioned performances.

“I can’t tell you how much I appreciated it and also how good it felt to see the difference you are making. It really was so lovely to see how far the Hippodrome has come and that you all care so much, it actually really does mean a lot, considering that on a daily basis, life can be tough just accessing places!” Relaxed performance audience member

HIPPODROME STUDIOS

In Autumn 2023 we officially welcomed our two new departments: New Work & Artist Development and New Musical Theatre.

Our New Work & Artist Development team has been created to make the Hippodrome a vibrant and supportive home for West Midlands creatives, with regular activity on weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, seasonal and annual cycles. So far, we have already engaged with over 350 West Midlands based creatives.

Our in-house New Musical Theatre department is the first of its kind in the UK, commissioning, developing and producing new musicals, alongside providing skills development and supporting sustainable career pathways.

2023 saw not only the launch of our new departments, but new spaces too: Studio 4 and the Artists’ Lounge.

Studio 4 is a space for rehearsals, workshops and events, improving our facilities and spaces as we continue to grow our produced work. The Artists’ Lounge has been developed as a place for creatives to be at home in the Hippodrome amidst a growing community to network, have meetings, work or just pop in for a cup of tea.

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SOME OF OUR NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS SINCE LAUNCHING INCLUDE...

Playspace

For three days every month, a different artist or team has access to space at Birmingham Hippodrome to explore an idea with no pressure to create a final piece of work.

Writer’s Block

Run by Birmingham Hippodrome’s Head of New Work & Artist Development Sophia Griffin and playwright and dramturg Grace Barrington, Writer’s Block is a regular scratch night for artists to test new ideas with other creatives.

Gathering: Residency and Seed Commission

In partnership with Talawa Theatre Company and the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, we welcomed 35 local artists for a three-day residency of workshops and community building. Through this collaboration, two new pieces of work have been co-commissioned, with another two receiving further development. This will be the first work developed with the New Work & Artist department and will be shared later this year as part of Talawa’s Black Joy season.

Musical Theatre Writers Group

This key developmental programme focuses on the craft of writing new musical theatre. From over 180 applications, six writing teams made up of 15 creatives from across the UK have formed the first MT Writers Group cohort. Each team will develop a new musical with us over 12 months, to be showcased in March 2025.

New productions

We kickstarted 2024 by producing workshop performances of This Is A Love Story. Telling the story of the relationship between Earth and Humanity with music & lyrics by Jack Godfrey and book & additional lyrics by Ellie Coote, This Is A Love Story featured a soundtrack filled with sharp lyrics that speak to the climate crisis and the relationship that each of us have with our planet.

The cast and creative team developed the show for 10 days at the Hippodrome before the workshop performances took place in our Patrick Studio in February.

We also commissioned our first festive family show The Jingleclaw, by Robyn Grant and Tim Gilvin, which will premiere in the Patrick Studio in December 2024.

“This

event (Gathering) has changed the way that I understand the identity of Birmingham Hippodrome. Rather than seeing it as the place where I will go and see a musical with friends on a special occasion, I still see it as that, but also as a place where I can come to write, create work and network with other artists. So, thank you all for your great work in bringing all of the artists and creatives together.”

Lorna

HIPPODROME STAGES ON STAGE HIGHLIGHTS

We welcomed over 600,000 people to our 2023-24 season productions, an increase of 100,000 on the previous year.

We proudly welcomed over 150,000 people to our phenomenal 11-week summer run of Disney’s The Lion King, following a spring season of audience favourites including Titanic The Musical, the first UK tour of The Spongebob Musical and the return of our critically acclaimed co-production with Rambert of Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby.

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We followed the summer in style by hosting the sell-out world premiere of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Black Sabbath The Ballet. Additional autumn season highlights included another premiere in our Patrick Studio of new musical The Good Enough Mums Club and sold-out performances of Roshni from Hippodrome Associate Sonia Sabri Company. Our partnership with Dance Consortium saw us welcome the renowned Ailey 2 to our main stage with a special four piece repertoire.

Over the festive season we welcomed audiences to performances of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker, younger families to Dear Santa in our Patrick Studio and our giant spectacular pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. With a truly magnificent beanstalk which grew from our auditorium and into our roof, just under 120,000 people joined us for this epic production, making it our best attended pantomime since the Hippodrome reopened in 2001.

The season continued with five star reviews across the board for the the multi-award winning Life of Pi and Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands

We ended the year with the stunning return of Wicked, which attracted over 70,000 people.

HIPPODROME STAGES OFF STAGE HIGHLIGHTS

B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival

Thursday 8 - Wednesday 14 June

Our annual free hip-hop festival kicked off with a Young Community takeover day, curated by our Young Advocates. With a host of workshops for young people to participate in including Waacking, Graffiti, DJ and lyrics, followed by an open jam session, it was the perfect way to start a week-long celebration of 50 years of hip-hop.

The Hippodrome takeover continued into the weekend with more workshops and a special screening of Fight

The Power: How Hip-Hop Changed The World followed by a Q&A hosted by BBC 1Xtra’s Rakeem Omar.

Hippodrome Square came to life over the weekend with a Block Party featuring Breakin’, Waacking and All Style qualifiers, graffiti and Afroflux’s fluxcon and market place. The weekend concluded with the grand finals hosted at our partners Bullring & Grand Central, and the festival week ended with a ground-breaking showcase of hip-hop dance theatre from Breakin’ Convention.

B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival was produced by Birmingham Hippodrome with Break Mission, Afroflux, High Vis Festival, Queer-Side, Punch Records and Breakin’ Convention. The festival was in partnership with Bullring & Grand Central and supported by Arts Council England, The Arcadian and Southside District.

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Birmingham Weekender

Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 August

Birmingham Weekender returned to the city with a packed programme of installations, interactive experiences and energetic performances at Bullring & Grand Central and in the Hippodrome’s home district of Southside.

Highlights included a giant swing set on Central Street, a spectacular stage at Rotunda Square curated by our Young Advocates, and the Lumini, an inflatable walk-through of wonder, which hosted an array of workshops including yoga, sensory sessions and African drumming.

Lunar New Year

Sunday 11 February

The city’s Lunar New Year celebrations brought not only a buzz to Southside but also record-breaking attendance.

After opening with the much-loved dragon and lion procession in Hippodrome Square, the free festival was packed with performances including traditional music, sword dancing, K-Pop dance and much more, alongside craft markets and food stalls.

Visitors to the festival were also invited into the foyers of the Hippodrome to take part in dragon puppet making classes, fan dance workshops and traditional calligraphy sessions. Our Atrium hosted an art exhibition next to performances from British East & South East Asian creatives MOVE Midlands in the Patrick Studio.

A spectacular fireworks finale closed the day’s celebrations.

year’s festival

ATTENDED BY 125,000 PEOPLE

The festival culminated with Weekender Carnival, a vibrant musical celebration and dance extravaganza by ACE Dance and Music featuring a mass procession through the streets of Birmingham.

ATTENDED BY 38,000 PEOPLE

Lunar New Year 2024 was produced by Birmingham Hippodrome with Principal Partners Birmingham Chinese Festival Committee and Birmingham Chinatown Business Association and Uber Eats returned as sponsors of the Festival Stage. The family zone was sponsored by Birmingham Chinese School.

This

was supported by Bentley Birmingham, Southside District, The Arcadian and Berkeley St Joseph. We are also grateful for the donations, partnership or in-kind support received from The Southside Building, Bullring & Grand Central and Hollywood Monster.

Birmingham Weekender was produced by Birmingham Hippodrome, in partnership with Bullring & Grand Central and supported by Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England, Without Walls, Southside District, The Arcadian and Network Rail.

HIPPODROME TOMORROW

HIPPODROME TOMORROW IS OUR COMMITMENT TO ENSURING OUR VENUE IS FIT FOR THE MANY YEARS TO COME, WITH THE GREATEST AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE AND BEST WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.

HIPPODROME TOMORROW

As well as reimagining our building with our new spaces, including The Circle Lounge, Studio 4 and the Artists’ Lounge, to improve our audience and participant experience, we have also made significant efforts to further improve our sustainability. In the last year we have:

• Joined the Sustainable Arts West Midlands working group, a network of cultural organisations who have joined together to collectively respond to the climate and ecological crisis

• Formed our new Risk & Compliance team, who will provide a dedicated resource for sustainability

• Introduced high quality reusable cups and glasses for our auditoriums

• Partnered with our uniform suppliers Corporate Connection to fully recycle employee uniforms with a zero landfill guarantee. Any waste from the recycling process is sustainably resourced back into cloth, building insulation and renewable energy pellets. If that wasn’t enough, we have now started to introduce some items into our uniform range made from sustainable and recycled fabrics too!

• Introduced Dry Mixed Recycling on site, involving materials being put into one waste stream and being processed efficiently and effectively at a specialist plant, with general waste continuing to go to an Energy Recovery Facility, maintaining our zero to landfill policy

• Completed work on our heating and cooling systems in our main auditorium to improve air flow efficiency

• Ran training for all employees on Waste Management; team members across the organisation have undertaken training with West Midlands Combined Authority and have been awarded the Carbon Literate accreditation by the Carbon Literacy Project. This has been celebrated by the United Nations as a worldwide Transformative Action Programme

• Sourced local and regional produce as much as possible for our Circle Lounge, including Birmingham markets, carrots grown locally in Moseley, regional cheeses and flour made from local grains from Shipton Mill in the Cotswolds. We also used pumpkins and grapes from the local Perry Barr allotments!

• Sent the egg shells and coffee grounds used in our Circle Lounge to the Perry Barr allotments to be used for compost

• Saved the equivalent of 184 trees by recycling paper and cardboard

• Achieved a Greener Path Zero to Landfill Diversion Award for sending zero waste to landfill in 2023. This means that we have saved 68.16 tonnes of carbon over the last year!

OUR STRATEGIC CORE HOSPITALITY, AND DEVELOPMENT

The return of pre-show dining

In August we launched The Circle Lounge, our new pre-show dining offer, working with Birmingham based 2G Design and Build on the design and West Midlands based company Tutto Apposto on the new menus. Headed by Chef Angelina Adamo, the new concept offers small plates, sharing platters and afternoon tea, all with a mediterranean influence.

Since opening we have welcomed 9,000 diners and served… OVER 7,000 SMALL PLATES OVER 1,750 AFTERNOON TEAS OVER 4,000 DESSERTS AND ICE CREAMS

Fundraising and events

“That a theatre restaurant can be so good you’ll be looking for a show to see as an excuse to visit, rather than the other way round” I Choose Birmingham

This year saw a focus on raising funds to support our work for young people, expand our Relaxed performance and festivals programme, and develop our New Musical Theatre Department.

Major arts philanthropist Charles Holloway became the Founding Supporter of our New Musical Theatre Department with a grant award over three years from The Charles Michael Holloway Charitable Trust, which will support the development of new productions and increase opportunities for musical theatre writers and creatives.

We once again participated in The Big Give Christmas Challenge, raising over £30,000 to expand our programme of Relaxed performances and provide tickets to every SEN school in Birmingham. This was followed by participating in The Big Give’s Arts for Impact campaign in March, raising over £27,000. The funds raised from this week-long campaign will support the Hippodrome Unlocked strand of our five year plan, to help us provide exceptional creative experiences in community settings and at the Hippodrome, as well as providing tickets for young people from underserved communities to attend world-class performances.

In April 2023, we launched our Curtain Raiser Circle in support of our young dance talent development programme. Over £6,000 was raised to provide participants with the opportunity to work alongside professional choreographers in the creation of a performance inspired by a visiting production. The participants then perform their piece on our main stage in front of an audience before the show.

Our Curtain Raiser programme was further supported by our popular Gala Dinners. Our two sold out Galas at Disney’s The Lion King and Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands raised a combined total of over £25,000.

We received significant grant awards from Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council in support of our festivals programme, enabling us to make Birmingham Weekender our most accessible festival yet. We also received first-time grant awards from Hortons Social Purpose Committee and the Sebbie Hall Kindness Foundation. Our Hippodrome Education Network was further supported by a generous grant award from local charity Property for Kids.

The year ended with an auction of original works by Birmingham based Artist Charles Pedone hosted at The Grand Hotel. The event raised over £10,000 to support our youth programme.

STRATEGIC HOSPITALITY, FUNDRAISING DEVELOPMENT

seats were named in our auditorium, including two for Brummie legend Alison Hammond to celebrate her performance in Jack and the Beanstalk.

We proudly welcomed our youngest patron this year, philanthropist Sebbie Hall. We also celebrated Andy Le Marr, who joined us as a Patron in 1989, a fantastic 34 years of support and theatre-going!

Our audiences generously donated over £20,000 to support our Arts Matter! campaign to help us create more opportunities for everyone to access the arts.

We welcomed new Corporate Patrons Prime Accountants and Heligan Group as our Hippodrome Unlocked Partner.

We trained 37 new Relaxed performance volunteers and were kindly supported at our Relaxed performances by volunteers from Eversheds Sutherland, Gowling WLG, Howells, HSBC, LDC and St Phillips.

OUR STRATEGIC CORE

DEVELOPING OUR WORKFORCE

This year we welcomed the new roles of Head of People and People & Culture Apprentice to support our strategy. We saw investment in a new Human Resources information system to improve the way we manage data, and launched employee engagement surveys through Culture Amp. The surveys have been run to better measure our employees’ engagement, wellbeing and connection to the organisation, with the results and actions from our first survey shared with all employees at our annual company away day.

We also implemented a new Learning Management System to provide up-to-date and accessible training courses.

Our commitment to offering alternative recruitment pathways into the organisation continued with apprenticeship placements within our Technical and HR teams, partnering with organisations including The Cameron Mackintosh Foundation.

Our teams continue to be supported by our working and employee support groups, to ensure a breadth of voices and perspectives are represented at all levels.

Our groups are:

INCLUSION & ANTI-RACISM

EMPLOYEE REPS

WELLBEING GREEN TEAM

MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDERS

DIVERSIFYING OUR INCOME

In November, we completed the acquisition of The Southside Building, a design-led 11 storey office block and retail space located next to the Hippodrome. Supported by the West Midlands Combined Authority and Frontier Development Capital, the investment will enable us to diversify our income and grow more work opportunities for the city.

STRATEGIC GROWING OUR PROFILE

AWARDS

Wins

• The Stage 100 List

Our Artistic Director & CEO Jon Gilchrist listed as one of the most influential people in theatre

• Birmingham Awards Arts & Culture Award

• Greater Birmingham Chamber Awards Inclusive People Development

• Greater Birmingham Young Professional Awards

Zaylie-Dawn Wilson named winner of the Creative Arts & Culture category and winner of Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year

Finalists

• MBCC Awards

Excellence in Inclusion & Diversity

• UK Theatre Awards

Excellence in Arts Education

• UK Theatre Awards

Achievement in Dance for our co-production with Rambert of Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

• Black British Theare Awards

Best Musical Production and Best Musical Director for our co-production with Curve of The Color Purple

• UK Social Media Awards

Best Low Budget Campaign

OUR STRATEGIC CORE GROWING

Our social media impact

183,

605 combined followers on social media, up 8% from the previous year

1,819

847 engagements on our social channels, up 15% from the previous year

Telling our story

We saw a significant increase in media coverage telling the Hippodrome story in 2023. We secured multiple exclusive features and a front cover feature with key industry newspaper The Stage for the launch of our New Musical Theatre Department.

OUR PEOPLE

Our Trustees

Andrew Connors

Martin Guest

Andrew Hammond

Vidar Hjardeng

Glenn Howells (Chair until Nov 2023)

Immy Kaur

Elizabeth Lawal

Catherine Mallyon (Chair)

Harj Millington (Vice-Chair)

Suzie Norton

Tru Powell

Ann Tonks (Vice-Chair until Nov 2023)

Special Adviser

John Crabtree OBE

Our Permanent Employees

Ashley Adam

Ryan Allen-Rose

Amit Amliwala

Olive Amos

Alex Bacciochi-Paton

Christopher Ball

Charlie Bannocks

Jacky Barron

Sebastian Bartlett

Caroline Beaven

Jacob Bell

James Berger

Phoebe Blackburn

Stuart Boland

Kevin Bow

Charlotte Boyer

Jamie Braniff

Rachel Bromfield

Mark Brooks

James Browning (Until Sep 2023)

Matthew Broyd

Jen Burrows

Julie Carey

Stephen Carter (Until Oct 2023)

Finlay Carroll

Hannah Carroll (Until Feb 2024)

Holly Chadley

Cheuk Lai Tracy Chan

Claire Chandler

Rebecca Clark

Annabel Cook

Simon Cutler

Laura Davenport (Until Dec 2023)

Jack Davies

Martha Davis

Garry Dawes

Josh Delves

Adele Diviney (Until April 2023)

Amrit Kaur Dhugga

Leigh Duffy

Stephen Eames

Nicola Entwistle

Jyoti Evans

Matt Evans

Stephen Fabian-Edwards

Imogen Fancourt

Amelia Farrelly (Until May 2023)

Claire Farnell

Lucy Fellows (Until Aug 2023)

Laura Gallimore

Jon Gilchrist

Marina Gilmore

Donald Graham

James Gratrix

Judith Greenburgh

Sophia Griffin

Joanne Griffin

Alice Grove

Audrey Guest

Rav Hans

Connor Hassall

Sebastian Hau-Walker

Alicia Hawkins (Until May 2023)

Debbie Hayes

Lisette Hickman

Colleen Hoey

Andrew Hogarth

Elizabeth Hope

Glen Ivison (Until Sep 2023)

Erika Jackson

Jonathon Jenkinson

Elyse Jinks

Dale Johnson

Myles Johnson

Holly Jones

Marc Keogh (Until Mar 2024)

Kerrie Kemble (Until Dec 2023)

Beth Kiddie

Victoria Lane

Alyce Leivers

Sophie Lewis

Rachel Little

Yimi Liu (Until Feb 2024)

Mollie Macpherson

Chilina Madon

Rachel Martin (Until Aug 2023)

Tim Maycock (Until Jan 2024)

Sarah Miller (Until Dec 2023)

Lauren Milwain

Maria-Magdalena

Mineva

Cheryl Mok

Abbie Morgan

Lauren Morton

Fazle Munna

Francesca Murphy

Matthew Neuenhaus

Diana Nickless

Bethany Nightingale

Rares Nistor

John Norlinds

Deirdre O’Halloran

Erica O’Brien

Thomas O’Connell

Stephen O’Hare

Jordan Oliver

Joe Parker

Matthew Parker (Until May 2023)

Mathilde Petford

Charles Pette

Amy Philpott

Ben Pickering

Ellie Pickering

Jake Plester-Coyne

Imara Powell

Ruth Power

Joseph Price

Ethan Pritchard

Joseph Proctor

Craig Randle

David Reeve

Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo

Roberts

Michael Robertson

Sherelle Robbins

Francesca Robson

Hannah Roe

Leon Rowe

Timera Rowe (Until May 2023)

Emma Ryan

Parminderjit Sanghera

Donna Scott

Denise Seddon (Until Feb 2024)

Lucy Slevin

Anouk Smith

Carden Stapleton

Sam Strachan

Amy Stutz

Chris Sudworth

Halima Suleman

Nathan Sunderland (Until Jul 2023)

Brian Taylor

Alex Thacker

Emma Thompson

Ben Tindall

Lucky Uddin

Nicholas Valente

Thomas Valentine

Eleanor Walker

Ian Wallace

Adam Webster

Fabia White

Megan White

Scott Whitehouse

Elizabeth Wildman

Jhanee Wilkins

Rachel Williams

Zaylie-Dawn Wilson

Jenny Wood

Jo Wright (Until Jul 2023)

Jack Wylie

Amelia York

Lynn Zabiela

Our Casual Employees

Eddie Adkins

James Allen (Until Nov 2023)

Eve Allsop

Sally Andin (Until May 2023)

James Ansell

Reza Arabpour

Michelle Astbury

Kimberley Bailey

Harry Barlow (Until May 2023)

Alastair Barnsley

Abeda Begum

Alexandra Belfort

Emilia Benetatos (Until May 2023)

Ashley Bird

Lucy Williams-Bird (Until Jun 2023)

Natalie Blanchard

Eliott Bloomer

Gemma Blower

Marni Bond

Oliver Boot

Thomas Booth

Kate Bradley

Robert Brew

Rebecca Brown

Natasha Brown

Pamela Brown

Marie Buffong

Terrianne Buffong

Lynsey Burford

Christopher Burrow

John Burrows

Vanessa Burrows

Anna Butcher

Kewina Byfield

James Calver

Amy Castledine (Until May 2023)

Millie Charlton (Until May 2023)

Amelia Cameron-Padmore

Ronald Campbell

Mary Clarke

Mia Clive

Lisa Closs

Sarah Cook

Matthew Cook

Stephen Cowdrill

Dante Crawford

Maisie Cutter

Ryan Darby

Eleanor Dare

Ayods David

Emma Davies

Stefan Davis

Isobelle Day

Anthony Deeming

Sophie Devane

Charlotte Dipple

Paula Douglas

Peter Doyle

Lewy-Jake Draper

Rhiann Edwards

Paul Emery

Helen England

Molly Evans

Madison Evans (Until Aug 2023)

John Farmer (Until May 2023)

Oliver Farrelly (Until Aug 2023)

Gail Felton

Tiffany Fereday

Paul Fisher-Bazan

Gail Fletcher

Alexander Frost

Abigail Gachukia

Eden Garrattley

Million Gebrehiewete

Elisha Jane

Raymond Gibson (Until Aug 2023)

Amber Gollay

John Gooden (Until May 2023)

Alexis Goodier

Abel Graham (Until May 2023)

Tony Graham

Stephen Grant

Jagdish Greenfield

Paula Greku

Helen Griffiths

Michael Hadley

Dan Hagley

Joseph Hamilton

Elaine Hann

Louise Hales (Until Feb 2024)

Ann Harrison

Megan Hart

Chloe Hartley

Mia Harvey

Neil Hateley

Shauna Havord

Julie Christina-Ann Hayes

Michael Healing

Victoria Hemsley

James Henry (Until Dec 2023)

Teresa Herbert

Hannah Hibbert

Katherine Hill

Joy Holder

Kenny Holmes

Linda Houghton

Kieron Hoult

Joshua Howes

Sadie Hughes

Daniel Hunt

Rachel Hunter

Ruqayyah Iqbal

Martin Jarvis

Alexander Johnson

Ellie May Jones

Mishelle Keany

Karen Kelly

Jessica Kendall

Paul Keogh

Ashleigh Kerr

Armaan Khaliq

Amani Khan

Sasha Kite

Saneal Kumar

Philippa Lacey (Until May 2023)

Rohan Lal

Terry Lamb

Poppy Latimer

William Latus

Liam Layland (Until Dec 2023)

Grace Leighton (Until May 2023)

Brent Leman

Kevin Lent

Darren Lewis

Naomi Lewis

Jozef Loboda

Samantha Logan

Rory Longcake

Sarah Lowes

Darren Lucas

Ellie-Mae Maguire

Peter Mallett

Charlotte Manning

Anne Marklew

Dean Marshall

Perminder Marwaha

Natalie Mason

Jasper Mattel

Eden Maye

Brandon Mayfield

Hayley Mcallister

Catherine McIntosh

Gennavive Mcintosh (Until May 2023)

Ian McKnight

Sophie Meredith

Glenis Merritt

Benjamin Mitchell

Safiyo Mohamed

Chloe Molland (Until Oct 2023)

Bryan Moore

Jessica Morgan

Shania Morgan

Angela Morton

Elaine Mould

Anna Nee

Joel Nelson

Layan Nourouz

Paul Oakley

Julian O’Brien

Darcy O’Grady

Adannae Okeke (Until Sep 2023)

Joshua Ollerton

Luke Orme

Nick Owen

Elliot Paris-Hamilton

Katie Payne

Charlotte Perry

Cordelia Porter (Until June 2023)

Tom Phipps

Matthew Pitt

Rafiena Potter

Toni Poulsom

Sophie Preisler

Donna Rafter

Callum Ray

Xinqi Ren

Megan Reynolds

Paul Roberts (Until May 2023)

Robert Roberts

Karl Robins Maria

Rodriguez Murdoch

Samuel Russell

Jade Russell

Nevaeh Russell

Barbara Rutter

Zakary Saleh

Rachel Schofield

Rhianna Shaw

Gareth Shippen

Bethan Siddaway

Thomas Silverton

Nicholas Skinner

Poppy Small

Patricia Smith

Tiffany Smith

Amy Smith

James Speirs (Until May 2023)

Katherine Stanley

Rosalyn Stanley

Adam Starr

Imani-Rae Steele

Andrea Stephenson

Darren Stokes

Laura Swales

Sheriton Swan

Timothy Swinhoe-Standen

Katie Sylvester

Wai Fung Tang

Brenda Taylor

Peter Terry-Short

Katherine Thomas

Natalie Thompson

Liam Thompson

Amanda Thornton (Until Feb 2024)

Liam Tipper

Jaiden Tsang

Francesca Tournay (Until Nov 2023)

Louise Turner

Kate Van Doren

Julien Vincensini

Rachel Wainwright

Alicia Wakeling (Until Aug 2023)

Sharon Walker

Jack Walsh

Laura Walsh

Chloe Wassell

Thomas Waterhouse (Until May 2023)

Gail Watkis (Until May 2023)

Jacob Watts

Alexander Webster

Amy Wells

Conor Westley (Until May 2023)

Ruth White

Shaun Whitehouse

Emma Whitehouse-bird

Adannae Okeke (Until Sep 2023)

Emily Wilks

Courtney Williams

Chaja Verkerk (Until May 2023)

Craig Wilson

Amelia Wilton

Zoe Wood

Carys Wood-Jones

Tommie Wynne

Ryker Young

Nasreen Zaidi

Shuayb Zaman

Alexandra-Adriana

Zlate

Our Visitor Services Volunteers:

Jennifer Blake

Erica Bolton

Eddie Bond

Andy Harper

David Chantry

Jane Clarkin

Mary Dawson

Viv Dobson

Shirley Evans

Kirstie Ewer

Diane Fitzpatrick

Taz Fetwi

John Fowler

Michelle Gillard

Megan Hicks

Susan Harpin

Paul Hill

Sarjit Kaur

Barbara Kowalska

Carol Rafter

Rodger Lawrence

Sarah Lucas

Maureen Mauser

Christine Miley

Diane McKevitt

Sandy Osborne

Liz Parry

Melanie Seaton

Jane Smalley

Jo Smith

Maxine Smith

Sue Taylor

Steve Wade

Wendy Whatton

Laura Whitehouse-Bird

Kim Wright

Our Heritage Volunteers

Fiona Cantrell

Rowena Fisher

Mary Hall

Ivan Heard

David Humphries

Pam Humphries

Lola Palmer

John Purser

Associate Companies

Aakash Odedra

Company

Motionhouse

Sonia Sabri Company

Creative Partners

Break Mission

Open Theatre

ANNUAL REVIEW 2023/24

Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre, Hurst Street, Southside, Birmingham, B5 4TB