Women And Theatre (Birmingham) Limited
Charity 518580
Overview
Summary
Women & Theatre appears to occupy a distinctive civic role as a socially engaged theatre company using performance as a bridge between arts practice and public-facing work in health, education and community settings. Its stated emphasis on “deep work” rooted in ordinary people’s language and lives suggests that theatre is not only an artistic output but a method for engaging contemporary social issues. The available evidence indicates a long-established Birmingham organisation with a cross-sector orientation, although its specific audiences, partnerships and outcomes remain unclear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Moseley
Confidence: high
Women & Theatre identifies The Old Lodge at Uffculme, 50 Queensbridge Road, Moseley as its contact address, and separately describes this as its company HQ and office base. It also states that its office is based at the Uffculme Centre and that it delivers creative work under its arrangement with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
- Women & Theatre website – home/contact page
The organisation gives its address as The Old Lodge, Uffculme, 50 Queensbridge Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8QY. - Women & Theatre website – Executive Director recruitment notice, September 2026
The notice describes the company HQ as being in Kings Heath, Birmingham; this is consistent with the Queensbridge Road base in the Moseley/Kings Heath area. - Women & Theatre website – Mental Health Trust project news, November 2025
Women & Theatre states that it is based at the Uffculme Centre, has an office there, and provides creative projects responding to the work of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
Edgbaston
Confidence: medium
Women & Theatre lists Word Lounge Theatre Company 2024–2026 as a current project and says it will deliver weekly sessions and a final live production at Midlands Arts Centre. MAC is located at Cannon Hill Park in Edgbaston. The evidence strongly supports delivery at the venue, although the published project information does not provide a dated 2026 session timetable.
- Women & Theatre website – Word Lounge Theatre Company 2024–2026
The organisation says it will deliver ten weekly youth-theatre sessions at Midlands Arts Centre, concluding with a live production in MAC's Foyle performance space. - MAC Birmingham website – Visit page
MAC gives its address as Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH. - Women & Theatre website – News, April 2026
Women & Theatre announced the 2026 return of Word Lounge Theatre Company and confirmed delivery at Midlands Arts Centre.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence confirms a Moseley-based HQ and delivery at MAC, but does not provide a complete current schedule or a comprehensive list of all Birmingham venues used during 2026.
- The Brummie Ensemble is a funded three-year programme that has used venues in Aston, the City Centre and Ladywood during 2025–26. However, the latest published Ladywood sessions ended in August 2026 and the location of its next term is not stated, so those areas are not recorded as current operational areas.
- Women & Theatre's partnership with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust materially extends its work into health settings, but the published information does not identify the locations of individual patient, staff-training or conference activities.
- The organisation describes work with diverse communities across Birmingham and the West Midlands, but this is insufficient to evidence continuous delivery across every Birmingham ward or to classify the present footprint as citywide.
Additional evidence needed
- A current 2026–27 programme or annual report listing delivery venues, dates and participant catchments.
- Confirmation from Women & Theatre of the venue and locality for the next Brummie Ensemble term.
- A current partnership or impact report identifying the Birmingham locations, where appropriate to disclose, of work delivered with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Education/training
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Theatre appears to be used as a civic engagement method
The organisation may use performance to make difficult contemporary issues discussable across sectors, rather than treating theatre solely as cultural entertainment.
Why it matters
This helps explain its likely value to partners in health, education and community work: it may contribute an accessible, participatory way of addressing issues that are otherwise hard to communicate.
Show evidence
“Working across the arts, health, education and community sectors, we have been pioneering new ways of addressing contemporary issues through performance since 1983.”
Source:Organisation“Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its practice seems grounded in everyday experience
Its reference to ordinary people’s language and lives may indicate a practice designed around relevance and recognition, potentially prioritising lived experience over more conventional theatre audiences or formats.
Why it matters
This suggests a distinctive organisational strength: translating social concerns into forms that may feel locally credible and understandable to non-specialist audiences.
Show evidence
“We make deep work about things that matter, reflecting the language and lives of ordinary people.”
Source:Organisation“Women & Theatre is an award-winning Birmingham based theatre company and charity.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation may be a long-term cross-sector connector
Operating since 1983 across arts, health, education and community sectors may have enabled the organisation to accumulate relationships and specialist knowledge that are valuable beyond individual productions.
Why it matters
If this is borne out, Women & Theatre could be an important convening or learning partner for organisations seeking to use creative practice in social settings.
Show evidence
“We have been pioneering new ways of addressing contemporary issues through performance since 1983.”
Source:Organisation“Working across the arts, health, education and community sectors.”
Source:Organisation
- Which contemporary issues, communities and geographic areas its projects prioritise.
- Whether people with lived experience co-create work, participate as audiences, or are primarily service recipients.
- Which health, education and community organisations it currently works with and what outcomes result.
Remaining uncertainties
- Project descriptions showing audiences, methods, partners and intended outcomes.
- Annual reports, evaluation findings and funding information showing reach, impact and changing priorities over time.