Empowering Communities, Amplifying Voices & Transforming LIVEs with Culture.

Our Impact In 2025

Upcoming events

More Events
Featured
Summer in the Park
Jun 27
Summer in the Park
Summer in the Park
Jun 28
Summer in the Park
Caspian’s Storm
Jul 18
St Osyth Summer Sounds
Caspian’s Storm
St Osyth Summer Sounds

In the rockpools of a town called Crabbiton lives a little crab. Although SMALL in stature, he had a BIG curiosity and loved watching the humans who lived near the shore. But, over time, he became worried about the impact they were having on his watery home.

St Osyth Summer Sounds
St Osyth Summer Sounds
Jul 18
St Osyth Priory
St Osyth Summer Sounds
St Osyth Priory

St Osyth Summer Sounds: Music & Food Festival, your new destination for world-class performances, family-friendly fun and mouth-watering culinary delights.

St Osyth Priory
ARCHITECTS OF AIR: ARBORIALIS
Jul 18
St Osyth Summer Sounds
ARCHITECTS OF AIR: ARBORIALIS
St Osyth Summer Sounds

Step inside Luminarium, a spectacular walk-through installation that fills Woolwich Works with light, colour, and calm. Tickets (£3.50) are required to enter.

St Osyth Summer Sounds
Brass Rascals
Jul 18
St Osyth Summer Sounds
Brass Rascals
St Osyth Summer Sounds

Brass Rascals at St Osyth Summer Sounds - (AKA Brasscals) are a band composed of session musicians that tour with different artists and play in the London and UK music scene.

St Osyth Summer Sounds
ARCHITECTS OF AIR: ARBORIALIS
Jul 19
St Osyth Summer Sounds
ARCHITECTS OF AIR: ARBORIALIS
St Osyth Summer Sounds

Step inside Luminarium, a spectacular walk-through installation that fills Woolwich Works with light, colour, and calm. Tickets (£3.50) are required to enter.

St Osyth Summer Sounds
St Osyth Summer Sounds
Jul 19
St Osyth Priory
St Osyth Summer Sounds
St Osyth Priory

St Osyth Summer Sounds: Music & Food Festival, your new destination for world-class performances, family-friendly fun and mouth-watering culinary delights.

St Osyth Priory
King's Cross Summer Sounds
Aug 13
Coal Drops Yard, King's Cross
King's Cross Summer Sounds
Coal Drops Yard, King's Cross

King’s Cross Summer Sounds, for 11 days (13th Aug - 23rd Aug), brings together music, culture and community in the heart of King’s Cross. Featuring a diverse lineup of live performances from local and emerging artists, this milestone event offers a vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive experience for all.

Coal Drops Yard, King's Cross
ReConnection
Sep 20
TBC
ReConnection
TBC

ReConnection unites percussion legend Dame Evelyn Glennie and harp virtuoso Catrin Finch in a luminous new work by composer Jill Jarman. Born from the post‑Covid moment, it transforms memories of separation into a shared live journey towards trust, unity and joy.

TBC
ReConnection at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, Scotland
Nov 19
Perth Theatre and Concert Hall
ReConnection at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, Scotland
Perth Theatre and Concert Hall

ReConnection at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall - unites percussion legend Dame Evelyn Glennie and harp virtuoso Catrin Finch in a luminous new work by composer Jill Jarman. Born from the post‑Covid moment, it transforms memories of separation into a shared live journey towards trust, unity and joy.

Perth Theatre and Concert Hall
Winter in the Park
Dec 19
Winter in the Park

News

More News
News
Production Crew Pool (Essex/Tendring)
Production Crew Pool (Essex/Tendring)

We’re building a pool of production crew to work across St Osyth Summer Sounds, Summer in the Park and Creative Tendring events in the future.

Workshop Leaders / Creative Facilitators Pool
Workshop Leaders / Creative Facilitators Pool

We’re building a pool of workshop leaders and creative facilitators for future opportunities across St Osyth Summer Sounds, Summer in the Park and Creative Tendring.

Box Office / Ticketing Support (On-site), St Osyth Summer Sounds
Box Office / Ticketing Support (On-site), St Osyth Summer Sounds

This is an on-the-day problem-solving role. We use a simple Ticketmaster ticket system, and you’ll support the entry team by helping stewards and volunteers scan tickets, resolving ticket issues, and answering questions from festival-goers.

We Are Hiring: Creative Tendring Programme Director
We Are Hiring: Creative Tendring Programme Director

This is a rare role for someone who loves building things with people: spending time across Tendring’s towns, coastal communities and rural villages, listening deeply, spotting local energy and turning those early conversations into visible, joyful cultural activity.

From Festivals to Flourishing: What 35,000 Shared Moments Tell Us About Community Wellbeing
From Festivals to Flourishing: What 35,000 Shared Moments Tell Us About Community Wellbeing

Working side by side with authenticity and a shared 10‑year vision, a free heritage setting becomes a living festival that belongs to and uplifts the whole community.

Creative Tendring puts culture in the hands of local people
Creative Tendring puts culture in the hands of local people

Creative Tendring has been awarded £750,000 as part of Arts Council England’s largest ever Creative People and Places (CPP) Portfolio, investing £42 million across 45 UK programmes from 2026–29 to spark more grassroots-led cultural experiences in areas where participation in the arts is below the national average.

Arts Trust Shortlisted for the 2025 Fantastic for Families Awards!
Arts Trust Shortlisted for the 2025 Fantastic for Families Awards!

We’re absolutely thrilled to share that Arts Trust has been shortlisted for the 2025 Fantastic for Families Awards, this recognition underscores our ongoing mission: to use creativity to connect people, reduce isolation, and empower communities.

The Hope Tree 2025
The Hope Tree 2025

The Hope Tree grew from a simple idea: that every person carries a quiet hope for their community, and when those hopes are shared and seen, they begin to take root.

  • Well done to everyone involved in running and funding this wonderful free festival! Keep doing this!

    EFDSS - Katy Spicer

  • Great to have an accessible and free event that supports people’s love of music

    King’s Cross Summer Sounds Audience Member

  • Great day of activity for the kids with culture, music and fun

    Summer in the Park Audiance Member

  • this is one of the most amazing experiences my daughter has ever experienced

    Fire Songs: PMLD Audience Member

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

View fullsize Calling Workshop Leaders & Creative Facilitators (Tendring / Essex / Greenwich) We’re building a pool of workshop leaders for future opportunities across Creative Tendring, Summer in the Park and St Osyth Summer Sounds. We’d love to
View fullsize We’re building a local production crew pool (Tendring / Essex / Greenwich)! We’re looking to connect with brilliant production staff and event crew for future opportunities across St Osyth Summer Sounds, Summer in the Park and Creative
View fullsize We’re hiring: Box Office / Ticketing Support (18 & 19 July 2026) Join the team at St Osyth Summer Sounds for two paid days on site, helping festival entry run smoothly. You’ll help stewards and volunteers scan tickets, troubleshoot
View fullsize We’re hiring: Programme Director, Creative Tendring. Creative Tendring is a brand-new, district-wide cultural programme and we’re looking for a founding leader to help shape it from day one. This is a rare role for someone who loves bui
View fullsize This year at Arts Trust we delivered 14 free festivals, welcoming 35,000+ people. And while the numbers matter, what matters more is what those moments created: * Connection (old friends + new faces) * Belonging (especially for people who don’
View fullsize Woolwich is about to LIGHT UP for Christmas! On Saturday 29 November 2025, join the local community & CC Events in General Gordon for Woolwich “Lights Up” – featuring a magical light installation, Gateway to Magic, plus free ent
View fullsize New coaching groups for Tendring artists and creative freelancers – sign up now! December 2025 – March 2026 Are you an artist, creative freelancer or run your own arts organisation? Are you based in Tendring? If so, a brand-new FREE g
View fullsize £750K AWARDED FOR CREATIVE TENDRING We’re thrilled to announce that Creative Tendring has been awarded £750,000 from Arts Council England as part of the new Creative People and Places (CPP) portfolio (2026–29), investing &pou
View fullsize We’re absolutely thrilled to share that Arts Trust has been shortlisted for the 2025 Fantastic for Families Awards for our flagship programme, Summer in the Park! This national recognition from the Family Arts Campaign celebrates organisations
View fullsize We’re thrilled to share that Arts Trust Productions was named Runner-Up in the Tendring4Growth Awards for Leisure & Hospitality, proudly sponsored by Surya Hotels. It’s an honour to have our work recognised in this way, and we couldn
View fullsize We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected as a finalist in the Leisure and Hospitality category at the Tendring4Growth Business Awards 2025, sponsored by Surya Hotels. A huge thank you to Tendring District Council, t
View fullsize Summer in the Park & Sundae PR. At Arts Trust Productions, our festivals do more than entertain, they bring people together, create pride in place, and shine a spotlight on our communities. This year, with our brilliant partners Sundae PR, we a
View fullsize We’ve got hundreds of amazing photos from Summer in the Park 2025 – and over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing them with you (forgive us in advance, they’re far too good to keep hidden away on a hard drive!). Summer in the
View fullsize Our friends at Mercury Theatre, Colchester, are excited to present Noël Coward’s timeless comedy Private Lives. Love and chaos collide in this sparkling comedy of manners. It’s a hilarious, stylish and a rollercoaster of emotions, fi
View fullsize What a summer it’s been! Over the past few months we’ve brought 14 festivals to our local communities across London and Essex, filling parks, squares, and open spaces with music, dance, food and joy. A huge thank you to Applause Rural To
View fullsize King's Cross Summer Sounds: REPLAY with Samsung. From 18–24 August, you can relive the magic of the festival with Replay with Samsung, a week-long opportunity to listen back to specially selected moments completely free at Samsung KX in King&r
View fullsize Check out Brimstone - walking the streets of King’s Cross Summer Sounds. If we are lucky he will be back with us a few times today! Folk Family Sunday!
View fullsize Folk Family Sunday - at Kings Cross Summer Sounds. Sunday 17 Aug: 12:30pm - 6pm Enjoy an afternoon of glorious, diverse, and upbeat folk music as the English Folk Dance and Song Society brings King’s Cross alive with rhythm, movement, and ma
View fullsize Leading Young British Opera Singers - at King's Cross Summer Sounds. A unique evening of opera, musical theatre and song with four of the country’s most exciting young singers, associated with English National Opera. Ellie Laugharne (Soprano
View fullsize Loved King’s Cross Summer Sounds? Why not make your next adventure St Osyth Summer Sounds: Music & Food Festival! Escape to the coast for a day out in the country during the last weekend of the school holidays. Enjoy world-class music, s

Make a donation.

Donating to Arts Trust helps us bring cultural experiences to our less privileged communities.

Donate
A diverse group of performers and audience members participating in a theater or musical performance, with a group of singers on stage and some audience members seated, some in wheelchairs, in a dark room with a large illuminated circular fixture overhead.

We are Currently supported by:

  • Logo of the Garfield Weston Foundation with a blue square and a large 'W' in black, and the foundation's name in blue text.
  • Logo for Community Fund featuring a smiling cartoon hand making a finger heart gesture in black and white, with the words 'COMMUNITY FUND' in pink and black.
  • Peabody logo featuring a stylized teal flower and the word 'Peabody' in teal font.
  • Logo of the Royal Borough of Greenwich with a flower design and a curved line, and text indicating it is funded by the borough.
  • The image shows a black and white logo for The Royal Parks Greenwich Park, with a stylized crown emblem on the left and the park's name to the right.
  • Side-by-side logos of The National Lottery and Sport England, with the National Lottery logo featuring a smiling hand with crossed fingers and the Sport England logo featuring a stylized human figure.
  • Text graphic with the phrase 'KINGS AND CROSSES' in outlined black letters on a black background.
Screenshot 2025-10-15 at 16.40.48.png

KES Reimagined - Produced for BBC FOUR (2019)