Sarah Walsh
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Make This a Christmas No.1: Supporting Inclusive Community Theatre Across Wales
Raising for Hijinx Theatre
This Christmas, you can help make sure no one is left out of the joy of creativity and community.
Support Hijinx Theatre’s Wales-wide inclusive drama programme, Pawb, and we’ll send you a free digital copy of Odyssey’s brand-new festive charity single, “The Spirit of Christmas”!
In the UK, 82% of learning disabled people feel lonely because they rarely get the chance to take part in community life.
That’s why Pawb matters.
Hijinx’s Pawb (Welsh for everyone) is Wales’s only year-round community theatre programme designed specifically for learning disabled and autistic people. Each week, over 100 participants across Wales connect through creativity, confidence, and friendship — from Odyssey, our community of adults creating bold, inclusive theatre, to our two young people’s theatre groups where members grow in confidence and friendship; to our three Drama Foundations, providing vital connection for adults with complex needs; and our band Vaguely Artistic, whose original music is bursting with heart.
The impact is transformative. As one Odyssey member told us:
“I was often a shy and quiet person growing up so the idea of being on stage was, I thought, going to be a dream and nothing more. Oh how wrong I was! I’m now more confident, have built skills and friends, and have learnt that I am capable of so much more than I would ever have imagined.
The experiences I have had on stage are some of the proudest moments of my life.
Odyssey is truly something that has the power to change people's lives for the better.”
This festive season, we’re aiming to raise £2,000 in one month to keep these life-changing groups thriving — supporting projects like Odyssey’s annual winter production, a joyful highlight of the year that brings members and audiences together in celebration of creativity and community.
Every donation makes a difference:
£10 could provide a sensory tool to help members focus, connect, and feel a sense of belonging
£20 could buy costumes or makeup, helping members feel confident and celebrated as they shine on stage
£50 could cover the hire of an accessible venue for a creative session, giving members a safe space to express themselves, make friends, and build life skills.
Together, we can keep the laughter, music, and magic alive — long after Christmas.
Donate today, help us reach our £2,000 goal, and receive your free copy of “The Spirit of Christmas” — a heart-warming anthem to creativity, togetherness, and hope.
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About us
Hijinx Theatre
Charity number: 1078358
We are Hijinx.
We are Wales’ inclusive theatre company — placing learning disabled and autistic artists at the heart of professional theatre, film, training and systemic change.
For over 40 years, we’ve been creating bold, award-winning work that challenges perceptions, shifts power, and redefines who gets to make and lead the arts. Our vision is of a world where learning disabled and autistic people are not just included in culture, but represented, paid and leading it.
In 2012, we launched the first Hijinx Academy — Wales’ only professional performance training for learning disabled and autistic adults. We now run five Academies training 65 across the country, alongside Pawb, our Wales-wide community engagement and outreach programme, which supports over 100 people aged 16–80 each week. Our approach supports confidence, wellbeing and independence through creativity.
We are proud to also operate Hijinx Actors, the UK’s largest casting agency for learning disabled and autistic actors, delivering hundreds of paid creative roles in mainstream TV, film, and theatre each year and supporting actors with specialist training, creative enablers, and employment support.
Our theatre and film productions tour nationally and internationally, reaching over 15,000 people annually, while our award-winning business training helps over 2,500 professionals each year to see inclusion differently — and do it better.
Independent research shows that every £1 invested in Hijinx creates over £5 in social value, through increased confidence, wellbeing, employment, and long-term inclusion.
We are committed to creating opportunities that last — not just for our actors and Pawb members, but for the communities and creative industries they’re transforming.
Join us — and be part of the change.
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You transform lives. Every day I thank the stars my family found Hijinx.
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