Students performed at Cast as part of the Speak Up programme this week

Speak Up is taking place in selected schools across England and delivered through our Theatre Nation Partnerships partners. From 2022 to 2025 Speak Up will engage with 140,000 young people in 55 selected secondary schools nationwide.

  • Young people are supported to become leaders, by putting them at the heart of the creative process and decision making
  • Teachers are able to find ways that Speak Up can impact the culture of their school
  • Artists have the freedom make work without any predetermined outcomes

Speak Up aims to develop young people’s self-expression, wellbeing and personal skills, with an open-ended offer to make creative projects in their local area.