About Us
What We Do
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Mentorship
We offer all of our Foundation recipients personal mentorship and one to one support alongside their degree level training, providing them with our team's wealth of experience. We are always an email or zoom chat away offering our students professional advice whether that is academic support or career guidance.
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Professional Opportunities
We offer our Foundation recipients free tickets and invites to John Godber Company events and those of associate companies. Recipients will also be invited to attend rehearsals of professional productions. In the past year the John Godber Company has offered 7 professional jobs to Foundation members.
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Contacts & Connections
Our Foundation offers workshops and masterclasses with industry professionals from a whole range of disciplines, providing our recipients with valuable industry connections and experience for when they finish their studies.
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Commuity
Our Foundation prides itself on creating a community of support and collaboration for our recipients, where they are able to network with other like minded creatives as they prepare to enter the industry.
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Funding
Our recipients can apply for funding to assist them with their studies and professional development, including additional course costs such as script fees, headshots and Spotlight memberships for acting graduates. We also aim to support bigger funding bids for those in need.
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Merchandise
We provide our recipients with Foundation merchandise, including t-shirts and tote bags.
Workshops & Masterclasses
Click below to see what workshops and Webinars we have been running online for our Foundation Members.
Student Success
Since launching in 2020 The Godber Theatre Foundation has supported students throughout their training and into professional careers. We have had many students working with the John Godber Comapny as well as other prestigious companies. Click below to find out more about some of our students journeys with us.
Don’t Just Sit There
We are so excited to announce our new Foundation project “Don’t Just Sit There”, a play for primary schools about ambition in the arts! The show is being developed with funding from The Smile foundation and is being run by members of The Godber Theatre Foundation with John Godber Company.
This project, staffed and curated by members of The Godber Theatre Foundation, will take Jane Thornton’s play “Don’t Just Sit There” into a cross section of Primary schools across Hull and East Yorkshire in the weeks commencing 10th and 17th October 2022, including: Westcott Primary, Adelaide Primary, Welton Primary, Priory Primary, Woodlands Primary, Hallgate Primary, St. Vincents Primary and Paisley Primary, as well as two nights in Hull Truck Theatre’s studio, and should reach at least 1000 young people.
Donate Now
Any donation, however large or small, will help young people from Hull and East Yorkshire alongside their higher education training.
£10 will pay for a newly published script
£30 will pay for one students ring light
£50 will pay for one students drama school audition fee
£80 will pay for one student’s train travel from Hull to London
£100 will pay for one students Spotlight membership
£250 will pay for one students professional headshots
£400 will employ a Foundation member with the John Godber Company for a week.
For larger donations over £1000, please email: foundation@johngodberco.co.uk
Thank you for your donation from all at The Godber Theatre Foundation!