Havering Changing

Havering Changing support local people, living and working, in Collier Row, Harold Hill, Orchard Village, Rainham and Rush Green to choose, create and take part in their own their programme of inspiring arts and culture. Havering Changing will trial radical new ideas that engage local people in arts and culture in a variety of new ways.

Havering Changing is led by a consortium of eight organisations, led by Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, working with Clarion Futures (the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group), Havering Colleges, Havering Interfaith Forum, Havering Volunteer Centre, Havering Youth Services and myplace, Rainham Association for Village Events (R.A.V.E.), and The Mercury Shopping Centre.

The organisations that have come together to lead Havering Changing all passionately believe putting local communities at the heart of cultural decision making will enable residents to tell new and different stories about Havering; it will help people to feel at home in the world and in Havering; it will create moments of delight and inspiration; and that it will lead to a more connected, ambitious and confident community that believes they have just as much right to amazing cultural experiences as everyone else.

We don’t yet know what those stories will be - but we are excited at the prospect of facilitating and supporting the people of Havering to create them.