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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.
Black Lives and the Foundling Hospital
From its earliest days, the story of the Foundling Hospital includes glimpses into the lives of foundlings and mothers from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. The vision of founder, Thomas Coram, was that any healthy child should be admitted if there was a bed - ethnicity was not an issue, so it was only occasionally recorded.