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Out now, ‘Football is Life’

We’re so excited for you to meet the cast for our final tour of Offside:

Elizabeth Hope as Keeley/Lily
Charlotte Gosling as Mickey/Emma
Amy Revelle as Multi-Role

We’re absolutely thrilled to get into rehearsals with such talented actresses once again. Make sure you catch them on tour this summer.

Introducing the cast of Offside!

Fully Amplified nominated for another award

We are thrilled to announce that Fully Amplified has been nominated for a prestigious ARIAS (Audio & Radio Industry) Award, in the Grassroots Category. We’re so excited that this series continues to receive recognition. The award ceremony is on 3 May - wish us luck!

Thrive kicks off in Yorkshire & Sussex

This year we’re thrilled to be expending our creative engagement work into Redcar, Yorkshire and Eastbourne, Sussex and this Spring we completed our first pilot projects in these locations.
We met and worked with some amazing women on this project and together they created beautiful work - we’ll be revisiting these groups in Autumn with some exciting creative projects to share with the public so watch this space for more info.

Fully Amplified won Silver at the British Podcast Awards!

Our awards was in the Best Fiction category. We’re so honoured to have received another award for Fully Amplified.

A huge congratulations to the team and to all the nominees!

We’re back with another special podcast episode to celebrate the final tour of Offside. We spoke to the inimitable Steppers WOC WFC who brought hilarity and honesty to the table. Bolstered by incredible lyricism and poetry from the writers of OFFSIDE, Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish.

After two critically acclaimed tours in 2017 & 2018, Sabrina Mahfouz & Hollie McNish's electric OFFSIDE is back for a third and final tour of theatres and football clubs, to celebrate the Women's European Football Championship.

Offside is back!

In recognition of International Women’s Week, Futures took part in the Women and Girls Match Fund and raised £5140, with each donation matched by The Big Give.
Thank you to all our supporters who donated. Your money will support our engagement work for marginalised women and non-binary people.
Though International Women’s Week is over, we still require money year-round to support our work - if you’d like to help, please consider making a donation.

Fundraising success!

Tanya-Loretta Dee joins our Board of Trustees

We’re thrilled to announce that the actor and writer Tanya-Loretta Dee has joined our Board of Trustees. Tanya is a longstanding collaborator of Futures (including appearing in the original cast for Offside and writing for the Fully Amplified podcast series) and we’re excited to have her expertise on our Board.

Kiell Smith-Bynoe wins £30,500 on Celebrity Catchphrase for Futures Theatre!

We are so honoured to have been chosen by Kiell as his charity for Celebrity Catchphrase. He represented us so thoughtfully and in his own words, capturing the essence of our work. Kiell has been a good friend of Futures Theatre for many years and we’re so proud to see how his career has flourished.

An image of Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Katie Piper, Stephen Mulhern and Shaun Williamson standing in front of a blue background and Catchphrase sign