National Trust Quebec House collaborates with Coram for new Foundling Hospital history tours
The National Trust property Quebec House is collaborating with Coram to offer a special new tour this spring, exploring the unique story of the hundreds of children who were raised at the Foundling Hospital in Westerham, Kent. The tours, led by National Trust volunteers, run at midday every Friday from 7 March until 30 May 2025.
“Ballet Shoes is, above all, a love letter to ambition and chosen family”
As the new production of Ballet Shoes, the tale of three adopted sisters and their found family, comes to the end of its current run at the National Theatre, Zoe Lambert, an adopted young person, shares her reflections on the show.
Coram Shakespeare Schools Theatre Festival returns for 25th anniversary year
Today (4 February), Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation (CSSF) launches the spring leg of its 2024-25 Theatre Festival, the world’s largest annual youth drama programme featuring thousands of children performing Shakespeare plays live in professional theatres across the UK.
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation launches Big Give Christmas Challenge Appeal with donations doubled from 3 to 10 December
Approaching its 25th year in 2025, CSSF aims to raise £80,000 towards its Theatre and Film Festivals, using the unique power of Shakespeare to transform lives and give young people across the UK the confidence and skills they need to succeed in life.
100,000 pages of records from Coram’s Foundling Hospital Archive made available online to public for first time
Almost 100,000 pages of records from the Foundling Hospital, England’s first home for babies who were unable to be cared for by their parents, have today been made available online for the first time.
Coram publishes play script about the past and present of the care system for schools and youth groups to perform
Coram has published the script of the play Echoes Through Time: The Story of Care, created in collaboration with care-experienced young people. The script is published alongside a digital resource pack to support schools and youth groups to stage their own performances of the play and learn about the past and present of the care system.
Care-experienced young people perform sold-out play at Hoxton Hall, inspired by stories of children raised in the Foundling Hospital
A group of care-experienced young people delivered a powerful performance of a new play, Echoes Through Time: The Story of Care, to a sold-out audience at Hoxton Hall on Thursday 4 April 2024.
Explore the history of the Foundling Hospital in Kent with display and free talks at Quebec House
From 1 March, visitors to National Trust property Quebec House will be able to see a new artwork and join a free talk, as part of Coram’s programme, Voices Through Time: The Story of Care, made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Young competition winners who created the speeches Shakespeare ‘forgot’ to write announced at star-studded West End gala event
Last night (27 November), winners of What You Will, a competition hosted by the charity Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation (CSSF) inviting children and young people to create new speeches for Shakespeare characters, were announced at a gala event at London’s Criterion Theatre.
New documentary uncovering the lives of children who grew up at London’s Foundling Hospital released
Our documentary film tells the story of the Foundling Hospital and the children who grew up there.