A group of dedicated and talents people volunteer their time each week to give the group an experience of working on drama skills. Everyone gives their time freely and so much also goes on behind the scenes with admin tasks and pastoral support from the volunteer team.

We have a process in place for the hire of professional artists from time to time to run special sessions for the group. E.g. Dance, Music or Singing. We have an agreed pricing structure for this that the trustees approve. 

We apply for funding for one off summer projects for the wider community and are able to employee artists to work on these for a special intensive one-off arrangement. The full time members are can access these projects in addition to the regular sessions as well.

We are governed by a committee of interested parties and our decisions take direction from views and experiences of or members. The members of the group with learning disabilities are supported to give feedback and input into the company in a way that is meaningful and accessible to them. 

The aim of Friendly Bombs is to provide local learning-disabled people with a true sense of theatre. We always work from classic texts, and we used a variety of purposeful and creative methods to share the stories with our members as they learn it. 

The actors all have moderate learning disabilities and new members are invited to join the company after a six-week trial period.

We welcome anyone interested to get in touch and take part in a trial to see how they get on. We are seeking to offer the opportunity to be part of the company to people who may benefit from working on discovering classic plays together. 

We hope that the new members are energetic and enthusiastic about drama; they don't have to be experienced or skilled, as we will help them with that. The members would also be assessed on their ability to be definitive, and able to remember and clearly define a piece of work and reproduce it, to follow an instruction and copy and reproduce an action or movement for example. The final part of the initial assessment is the ability to project one's work and communicate an action to others.