Spectrum Community Arts is a registered ‘Not for Profit’ organisation with charitable purposes. It was first set up in January 2017, launching in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Spectrum now services three key area with in-person workshops in Leighton Buzzard and Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. In addition to our in-person workshops we offer Virtual workshops making our services even more accessible to those up and down the country. 

Spectrum Community Arts was set up with its principle aim to enable participants to develop their self-esteem and self-expression in a safe, encouraging environment, through the provision of performing arts workshops.

Building Self-Esteem

Our sessions are all about that feel-good factor! We focus, highlight and praise what our participants CAN do, rather than what their disability states they can’t.

All activities are accessible and made adaptable for the people we have in the room – meaning each person can achieve and feels great doing so!

Developing Self-Expression

The performing arts itself is a series of channels of communication. Emotions, characters and stories can be expressed through non-verbal movement and gestures.

Through exploring this, participants often find a new ‘voice’; a way to express who they are and their emotions through a more creative means.

Creating a Safe-space

Many participants say that their favourite thing about Spectrum is that they can be themselves without fear of judgement! The workshops are designed to support individuals to access the sessions with as little anxiety as possible.

Spectrum volunteers are drawn from all walks of life who have a wide range of backgrounds and skillsets with a common attribute shared by every one of them; the desire, passion and resolve to help, support and nurture those who need to access our services! Ordinarily without spectrum, many of our participants wouldn't be able to access the performing arts outside of education and without volunteers, the sessions couldn't run!