Birmingham Hippodrome’s newest cohort of Young Advocates are a group of 14–22-year-olds from the West Midlands who will support and influence the Hippodrome’s work with and for young people.
The Young Advocates will focus on individual development as well as working on a collective vision for Birmingham Hippodrome’s future, feeding back to the organisations senior team and Board.
Alongside working closely with the Hippodrome to programme and produce events for young people, the Young Advocates will receive training, mentoring and access to a range of different opportunities within the arts industry.
Mathilde Petford, Young People and Community Manager at Birmingham Hippodrome said: “This is our third and biggest cohort of Young Advocates. We had almost 50% of last year’s group wanting to stay on the programme so we have a lovely mix of experienced and new young people.
This group come from all over the West Midlands and are particularly interested in access and inclusion in the arts. We have writers, dancers, actors, costume designers, musicians and more! The Young Advocates will work closely with Hippodrome staff and Board to help shape the future of the organisation, supporting us in our delivery of our new five year strategy.
I’m pretty certain we have some future leaders in the group, so watch this space!”
Meet our new team of Young Advocates and find out why they applied for this special programme here.