Take Part
About Take Part
Our Take Part programme works with participants across East London and beyond, building creative skills, increasing confidence, and making performance.
Our projects are co-designed and co-led by learning disabled and autistic professionals, and tailor-made to the access needs of all participants, so everyone who takes part can express their own creative voice.
Projects take place in arts venues, day centres, care homes, community centres and colleges.
Our community of participants ranges from age 16 to 70, and includes people with all kinds of backgrounds, life experiences and artistic interests.
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We also run outreach programmes alongside our professional productions.
Our Take Part projects are open to learning disabled and autistic adults (18+) based in North and East London.
Take Part workshops take place in accessible spaces in Hackney.
For more information about individual projects you can contact Sophie by:
Phone 07805 490878
or
Meet the team
Helen Bryer
Director of Take Part and Train
Helen is Director of Take Part and Train at Access All Areas. She leads on the company’s participatory and community work, as well as the Performance Making Diploma. Before joining Access All Areas, Helen worked as Graeae Theatre Company’s Access Manager, overseeing all elements of access and working with other organisations to think creatively about inclusion. She has over fifteen years’ experience in participatory arts as a director, teacher and project manager, working across the UK in health and social care, arts and education settings with a wide range of participants.
Adam Smith
Associate Director of Take Part
After completing Access All Areas’ Transforming Leadership programme in 2021-2022, Adam joined Access All Areas as an Associate Director of Take Part.
He co-leads on the Departure Lounge and Spring Back programme. He has transformed the way we evaluate those programmes in a more accessible way. He also led on creating our Spring Back spin-off at Battersea Art Centre.
He co-leads on our consultancy work around accessible facilitation.
Adam is also an Associate Artist of Access All Areas. To learn more on his artistic career, read Adam’s Artist Profile.
Sophie Taylor
Take Part and Train Coordinator
Sophie has worked for Access All Areas as Take Part and Train Coordinator since 2020.
Sophie also works as Finance Administrator part-time for Access All Areas.
She has started her career with a love of community theatre projects with Dundee Rep Theatre.
Sophie has then worked in a number community settings throughout her career, including as an Assistant Producer for Community Engagement in Barbican Centre Creative Learning Department.