Community Partnerships

Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Schools Programme

We’re proud to be the Lead Theatre Partner in the Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Schools Programme in Nottingham. Through the programme teachers learn to explore Shakespeare with their students in the way actors do in a rehearsal room, using dynamic, active approaches.

Nottingham Puppet Festival

Established in 2018, Nottingham Puppet Festival sees national and international puppet shows, workshops, talks, screenings and events take place all across the city, alongside a programme of exciting community activities.

City Arts

City Arts is a Nottingham based charity that works with diverse communities of all ages, abilities and economic status to bring people together through creative arts opportunities. We have worked alongside City Arts with care home residents, young people and those who have suffered with mental ill health. We are also collaborating on the Celebrating Age programme, a project that involves members of the community having the chance to perform with the renowned orchestra, the Hallé.

Inspire Music

We support several projects for young musicians through our partnership with Inspire Music. These projects include Now Hear This, an orchestral concert for Key Stage 2 pupils with our resident orchestra, the Hallé; an acappella singing project for secondary schools with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain; plus Inspire Orchestra and Play the School programmes with the National Youth Orchestra.

Nottingham Trent University

The Nottingham Trent University Choir regularly performs at events in the Royal Concert Hall, including concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

University of Nottingham

Student musicians have performed on the Royal Concert Hall stage as part of our After Hours series and also collaborated on an assortment of shared performance programmes, such as the Soundstage Festival. Other work with the University of Nottingham has included projects led by the Mixed Reality Laboratory, plus the development of a digital archive in partnership with the School of English and Horizon Digital Economy Research.