We're working to make BIG change possible.

Transformative change for displaced artists.

Since 2015, we've supported 150+ artists from refugee backgrounds and offered employment and training opportunities to 750+ artists primarily from refugee backgrounds. Our long-term writing programme Change the Word has offered professional creative development opportunities and new social connections. Our Stage Door and BackStage Door programmes have provided fast-track access for young people from refugee backgrounds to gain paid work experience, skills and professional connections. Our Good Chance Socials offer newly arrived people a social network and invitations to nights out at the theatre. We also bring displaced artists onto some of the biggest and most prestigious stages both inside theatres, on the streets and behind the scenes across the world, putting their voices in the spotlight in award-winning and critically-acclimated productions like the performers we met in Calais cast in The Jungle, puppeteers from around the world in The Walk with Little Amal, and plays including A Grain of Sand written by Elias Matar, Good Chance’s Deputy Artistic Director.

Cultural change for the theatre industry.

Our award-winning productions The Jungle, The Walk with Little Amal and Kyoto were created alongside and performed by people with lived experience of displacement. These works have revolutionised the way theatre is made, reaching over 1.2 million people directly through cutting-edge, innovative storytelling. Through our Stage Door programme we work closely with theatres and cultural institutions to share best practice, provide training, and dismantle practical and cultural barriers so partners gain the skills, confidence and infrastructure needed to host and employ creative workers from displaced backgrounds. From becoming a Theatre of Sanctuary in 2022 for our efforts centering refugee artists and stories of migration, to ensuring each of our projects are authentically co-created, lived experience is at the heart of what we do. And from the Calais Jungle Dome, where we hosted UK and international theatre companies to collaborate with residents in the camp, to The Walk with Little Amal, created with 450 partners in 88 locations across the UK and Europe, or most recently during the London run of Kyoto hosting an Arts and Climate Gathering for 250 artists, arts organisations and climate leaders, we use our convening power to bring people together.

Narrative shift on the most pressing issues of our times.

We tell radical stories of hope that challenge negative perceptions around migration and climate change and amplify impact. The Jungle, The Walk with Little Amal, Fly With Me, From Here On and A Grain of Sand have already collectively captured the hearts and minds of audiences around the world, inspiring compassion and action through positive stories that re-humanise the refugee experience. Our ground-breaking play Kyoto is a political thriller already transforming the narrative around global agreement and the climate crisis. We consciously partner with sector organisations campaigning and acting for the communities we are supporting. For Fly With Me, we partnered with Afghanaid to encourage our audiences to engage with their fundraising and petition campaign to support Afghan women. For From Here On, we partnered with Safe Passage International to encourage people to support their campaign to protect children’s right to be children and to access safe routes. Since we began we’ve partnered strategically with national and local / grassroots players like Choose Love and Calais Appeal to amplify important messaging, extend our reach and deepen the impact and influence of our and their work in ways that traditional campaigning can’t.