Get involved as a local Promoter

Would you like to liven up your local community?

Is there a hall in your village but no village in your hall?

We can help you to bring quality, affordable, live entertainment to the heart of your community.

Live & Local is a network of over 170 mainly voluntary organisations from across Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Oxfordshire. These groups choose and organise high quality professional performances in local venues for their own community.

A professional office team supports the network by helping you, the local organisation (the 'Promoter') to choose shows, co-ordinate the bookings and attract the audiences.

We can help you to:

Choose, promote and run a fantastic evening's entertainment with no need to travel far from home;
Try something different with the confidence that your show will be of the highest quality and specially tailored to suit community venues;
Bring your community together and add to local social life;
Attract new people to your venue;
Raise some funds that can be invested in the community.

Who can be involved?

ANY enthusiastic voluntary group can become part of the Live & Local Network. You don’t have to have any previous experience in organising performances or to apply for any money. All you need is a local hall or space, a team of volunteers and plenty of enthusiasm! Shows are available for big and small spaces that are definitely not ‘theatres’ including village halls, community centres, churches and schools. You don’t need a stage or any special equipment.

What sorts of shows are there to choose from?

Live & Local provides an annual ‘Menu’ (usually in Feb/March) which contains information about a wide range of high quality shows made especially for community venues.

Live & Local audiences have enjoyed performances from jazz groups, folk musicians, theatre companies, dancers and storytellers - shows of all shapes and sizes for families, adults and children.

Who are the performers?

Professional companies and artists from across the UK perform the shows. They specialise in creating shows especially for smaller/unequipped halls and will bring everything with them which they need to perform. All you need is the space, some seats and an audience.

How can Live & Local help us get our community out!?

Live & Local provides all the practical information and support you need to choose, publicise and organise professional performances for your community:

An annual Menu containing information about professional shows available to suit all sorts of venues and audiences;
Friendly advice and support to help choose, promote and run the events. This can be found online, in our Promoter Handbook and at the end of the telephone;
Marketing/publicity information for your Live & Local shows;
Posters and leaflets overprinted with your event details;
Professionally printed tickets and a box office system for your shows;
Your Live & Local performances will feature on our website and in our bi-annual What’s On Diaries;
You will be able to benefit from our sophisticated e-marketing in addition to our traditional audience mailing lists;
An invitation to our annual Promoter meetings where you can meet other Promoters;
A regular Live & Local Network E-Newsletter to keep you in touch with news and information from Live & Local, Local Authorities, Performers and other Promoters;
Complimentary tickets to other Live & Local performances;
The potential to participate special Live & Local projects.

How much will it cost?

It’s FREE to join the Live & Local network! All Live & Local Promoters receive the benefits detailed above for each performance booked through Live & Local at no extra charge.

Promoters can request one or more subsidised performances each year. Subsidised shows cost from £150. The fees are set so that they are financially virtually risk free and your ticket prices can be kept affordable. We do not ask for any money up front.

You can also elect to pay the full cost of a show in order to be able to book additional performances over and above any subsidised ones. You will still receive all the other support and benefits described above.

All performances are therefore supported to some extent using funding received from your local authorities and the Arts Council, England.

Contact information

Please contact us to find out more and to request the full Live & Local Information Pack.

Tel (01926) 402173
Fax (01926) 402187

9.30am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday (with an answer phone service at other times)

Our address is:

Live & Local
Pageant House
2 Jury Street
WARWICK
CV34 4EW

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