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Cardboard Citizens

Cardboard Citizens Impact Report 2022-23: Transforming lives through arts and training

Cardboard Citizens' 2022-23 Impact Report describes a renewed full programme of theatre, creative workshops and training for people and audiences with experience of poverty, homelessness and inequity. Its programme reached over 1,500 people, its flagship Workshop Programme reached over 200 people with experience of homelessness or poverty, and its youth music programme, Cardboard Collective, engaged 251 young people across 35 workshops. It provided wraparound wellbeing and progression support to 226 Members, 76% of Members reported improved wellbeing, and it launched the London Ticket Bank with the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation.

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Cardboard Citizens is a London-based theatre company and charity that makes life-changing theatre with and for people with experience of homelessness, poverty and inequity, alongside creative workshops, training and wraparound support for its Members.

Key Metrics

1,500+ people reached by the programme
251 young people aged 16-25 reached by the youth music programme
76% of Members report improved wellbeing

Key Outcomes

  • 40 people accessed employment, training or volunteering, and 100% of trainees feel more confident about their career
  • Almost 70% of Members feel more in control of their lives
  • 77% of audiences surveyed said they learned more about the causes and impacts of homelessness among transgender people through seeing Faun

Geography

England

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