“I just love the togetherness in the room… everyone sharing experiences because everybody understands what everybody means.” - Affinity Group member.

Affinity Groups are spaces for our young people to talk and creatively explore parts of their identity with other members and artists who share their identity.

Learn how you would set up your own affinity group in your youth theatre, youth group or school with these pay-what-you-can Blueprints.

We’ve noticed that providing space for groups of young people who share an identity allowed them to find the words to articulate their stories authentically, get validation from the others in the group who connect with the same experiences, gain confidence, comfortability and normalise speaking unfiltered.

We think these are valuable spaces for all youth theatre groups so wanted to share our practice and experience so other groups could set up their own.