Alongside our Youth Theatre provision, we also run a range of other projects out in the community. Sometimes these are commissioned by other people and sometimes they are big ideas that we cook up ourselves at Minerva HQ and then try and find the money to make happen. Generally, these pieces of work fit into three themes...

Heritage 

Over the years we have developed and delivered a range of Heritage themes projects including our Wirral to West Africa project in 2013 and the Cheshire Souling project in 2017. 

We have also worked with partners to bring heritage themes alive in schools including Sutton Green Primary in Ellesmere Port and St. John's Primary in Skelmersdale. 

We regularly work with festivals and arts and cultural partners such as the Knutsford Promenades, Heritage Open Days and the Chester Midsummer and Midwinter Watch parades to bring performance and heritage together. 

Social Action

Many of our project work supports young people to use the arts to explore ways of getting involved in their communities. 
We have worked closely with UK Youth on their Money for Life and Change Squad programmes to encourage young people to develop events in their community and become ambassadors for financial literacy. 

We have also been commissioned by local third sector organisations to deliver projects that have included supporting the re-settlement and integration of Syrian refugees, working with young carers to educate the public about their lives and creating advocacy films to combat Disability hate crime. 

We gave also worked with schools to deliver work that supports young people's literacy and social and emotional development. 

Rural and Community 

We are proud of our track record of working with those young people that often are ignored or expected to travel a long way because of there they live. Our projects have worked with young people in rural locations across Cheshire, starting with our Arts Council England funded project 'Arts in the Villages' in 2013 and continuing into our Youth Theatre programme. 

We are also passionate about bringing together other groups of young people that engage in the arts. Our Lynk Cheshire programme (2014-2017) did just that and we are always keen to work with other groups. 

​We have delivered a drama group for Home Educated young people in North Wales since 2014 and love supporting this group of young people to express themselves through drama.