Partnerships
Blue Apple offers some sessions with partners.
QE2 Performing Arts Group - Hedge End
Partner: QE2 Activity Centre in Hedge End, provider of activity opportunities for people with additional needs.
What? Build skills in acting, dance and singing in a weekly session and work towards putting on local shows throughout the year.
When? Saturdays 10am-12pm
Who? Adults with neurodisabilities
Where? QE2, River Hamble Country Park, Pylands Lane, Hedge End, SO31 1BH
Cost All enquiries for cost and payments via QE2 Activity Centre
Contact QE2 on 023 8040 4844 or email them at activities@qe2activitycentre.co.uk to find out more or book.
Performing Arts session at QE2
Minstead Trust Hanger Farm Arts Centre - Totton
Hanger Farm Community Theatre
Mondays 11am-12.30pm
Mondays 1.00pm-2.30pm
Wednesday 11am-12.30pm
Partner: Hanger Farm Arts Centre, an 18th century converted barn, offering a unique theatre space, bustling café and exhibition gallery, run by the Minstead Trust, a local charity that provides training and support to improve the lives of people with neurodisabilities.
Hanger Farm Community Theatre is a pioneering, inclusive theatre company.
What? Build skills in acting, dance and singing in a weekly session and work towards putting on local shows throughout the year.
When? Monday 11am-12.30pm; 1.00pm-2.30pm; Wednesday 11am-12.30pm. Groups run all year round except between Christmas and New Year and on Bank Holidays.
Who? Adults with neurodisabilities - you do not need to attend QE2’s other services to join.
Where? Aikman Lane, Totton, Southampton SO40 8FT
Cost See here. All payments via Minstead Trust.
See more details here: Community Theatre - Hanger Farm
Contact Hanger Farm by phone to 023 8066 7683 or email hangerfarm@minsteadtrust.org.uk
Oak Lodge School - Dibden Purlieu
Blue Apple also deliver performing arts sessions to pupils at Oak Lodge School in Dibden Purlieu.
This session is currently taking a break. We’ll let you know when it is reinstated.
Sturts Community Trust Farm - West Moors
Wednesdays 2.30 to 4 pm ACTING
Sturts Community Trust, Sturts Farm, Three Cross Road, West Moors, Dorset BH22 0NF.
Explore your creativity, learn valuable skills, and develop your self-confidence while you work towards creating a performance for friends and family.
For details and to register call Sturts Community Trust on 01202 854762 or email: Aline Gandolfi | Senior Support and Activity Co-Ordinator at aline.gandolfi@sturtsfarm.com
Scarf Drama Club - New Milton
Monday 5.30pm to 7pm - PERFORMING ARTS
Ashley Junior School, Normans Way, New Milton, BH25 5FN
Acting, singing and dancing skills in a fun environment. Suitable for children/young people with special needs from age 10 up to and including 25 years.
Facilitated by Bonner Cockayne.
More details about the group and details of how to join are here
Please note that all participants must be or become members of Scarf.
To join Scarf, families must live within the boundaries of the New Forest District Council and have a child/young person (aged up to and including 25 years) with a disability or additional needs. Please click here for a map of the area that Scarf covers.
Family Membership is £25 per annum and renewable each January – new members can join at any time during the year.
Mayflower Blue Apple Youth Theatre - Southampton
Friday 5.00 to 6.30 pm PERFORMING ARTS
Mayflower Studios, Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DU
A youth theatre group for young people aged 15-21 years old with neurodisabilities. Build skills in acting, dance and singing in a weekly session and work towards putting on local shows throughout the year.
Facilitated by Daisy Price.