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Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is based in a historic building in the heart of Battersea, London, offering an ambitious live and digital programme of performance, heritage, events, and creative and community projects. Projects developed at BAC can also be found in the community, on tour both across the UK and overseas. BAC has around 50 permanent members of staff, who are supported through a mix of line management, in-house coaching and mentoring.

National Theatre Wales (NTW) is a theatre company known for its large-scale site-specific productions and its grassroots work with diverse Welsh communities. Working across Wales, the company works inclusively with communities and theatremakers, connecting people and creativity within their own localities and landscapes.

Theatre Royal Stratford East or Stratford East is a producing theatre located in Newham, London. Alongside its work on stage, Stratford East runs learning and participation programmes to develop creative talent for people of every age, and a Youth Theatre programme with different offers targeted at young people aged 11 to 25.

Dirty Protest Theatre (DP) is a performing arts organisation launched in 2007. It is based in Newport and works across Wales. Alongside its full-length productions, the core of DP’s activities are Dirty Protest Shorts Nights in which established and rising writers are put on the same platform, providing opportunities for writers, directors, and actors. DP works in collaboration with several organisations including the Royal Court Theatre, the Almeida Theatre, Traverse Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, Sherman, Theatre Clwyd, and National Theatre Wales.

MacPin Foundation believes mental health research is done best when it is shaped by people with personal experience of mental health issues. Mental health research should always involve the people it directly affects – which means research must include young people. Their Young People’s Network is made up of young people aged 13-28 interested in being involved in mental health research. They connect researchers with young people to make sure that their research is relevant to young people’s needs. In the young people’s involvement work they do, the role of the person with lived experience is to advise on the project to make sure that it is appropriate, effective and will be relevant for the people the research is trying to help.

Common Wealth make site-specific theatre events that encompass electronic sound, new writing, visual design and verbatim. Their work is political and contemporary – based in the present day – the here and now. They make work that is relevant and addresses concerns of our times. Their ideas are rooted in socialist politics, working class backgrounds, a keen interest in contemporary music/theatre/art/design, the people that they meet and an idealistic ambition to shift things. They see their plays as campaigns, as a way of bringing people together and making change feel possible. Common Wealth are based in Bradford and Cardiff and make award-winning work across the UK and internationally.