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- Keeping in Contact: June 2019
- Meet the Contact Young Curators
- Is your city representing you?
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- Generation Brexit: Here’s what they lost
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- George Mann and Nir Paldi on No Kids
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- Contact: a poem by Elmi Ali
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- Announcement: Contact is going to Hot Docs!
- Keeping in Contact: February 2019
- Contact Young Curators and MIF present A Drunk Pandemic
- Mandla-Rae: On Collaborating with Womxn
- Meet the Cast: Barber Shop Chronicles
- From Brazil to Moss Side
- Ramping Up: Reflections from the rehearsal room
- One Mic Stand: A Hive of Talent and Feel Good Spirit
- Rowan’s work experience at contact
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- Works Ahead returns with a sample of new performance for 2019
- Contact one of seven theatres awarded Theatres Trust funding to improve accessibility
- Keeping in Contact: January 2019
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- Call Out: ‘Radiotherapy & Me’ Oldham-based radiotherapy patients
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- Keeping in Contact: December 2018
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- OPEN DOORS: A Greater Manchester Theatres Guide For Artists
- ANNOUNCEMENT: IN THE CITY – PART THREE!
- CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP WITH SIEMENS TO FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
- Cast Announcement: The Forest Of Forgotten Discos!
- Keeping in Contact: October 2018
- A Year in Review: Contact’s Annual Report 17/18
- Family Fun in the City this December
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- Future Fires have a new cohort!
- Overheard At Contact: Top Tips from Director Alix Harris
- Introducing Contact’s new young board members
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- A Modern Manchester Rent Party
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- The many lives of Upper Campfield Market Hall
- Keeping in Contact: July 2018
- Eva’s work experience at contact
- Overheard at Contact: High Vis and Les Mis
- GM CRITICS SCHEME: the search for a new group of critical voices launches today
- Today I’m going to talk about Young Identity…
- In the rehearsal room with Contact Young Company
- Keeping in Contact: June 2018
- Mother’s Bloomers is back: Queer Artists Call Out
- Overheard at Contact: Our International Agent Steve reports back from Rio
- Keeping in Contact: May 2018
- OVERHEARD AT CONTACT: COMEDIAN AMY VREEKE LETS LOOSE
- Contact & Ockham’s Razor Call-Out
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- OVERHEARD AT CONTACT: CONTACT EMPLOYS AMAZON EXPLORER
- Keeping in Contact: Making Contact
- We’ve got a contractor, now let’s get building!
- Poetry Workshops: Temporary Monument, Permanent Protest
- Keeping in Contact: March 2018
- Contact to receive GMCA funding
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- Mila Patel’s Work Experience at Contact
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- Contact and 20 Stories High production to be broadcast on BBCTwo
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- Making Contact
- Would you like to star in our new Contact film?
- Keeping in Contact Newsletter, November 2017
- Ross from Powder Keg on his journey from CYC member to professional actor
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- Joint statement from Cultural organisations in Manchester
- Keeping in Contact Newsletter, October 2017
- Contact/BAC project The Agency goes national thanks to lottery funding
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- A Wellcome Partnership
- Uniquely Us: Spotlight on Future Fires participant Jessica Nolan!
- Culturehive: young people at the heart of decision-making
- Keeping in Contact newsletter, July ’17
- Afzal’s work experience at Contact
- Contact to continue as National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
Shows
- ARMR Store Launch Night - Five Course Meal
- Changing Landscapes Breaking Ground
- CYC - Flip the Script
- Mixed Movement x Open Floor
- Turn 2023
- Dzifa: Watch Party
- OUTSPOKEN Poetry Workshop
- Ladyfriends: Writing From LGBTQ+ History
- This Town by Rory Aaron
- Girl Gang MCR: Speed Mate-ing 2023
- Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival 2023
- Joe Avati WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... WORLD TOUR
- House of Suarez Presents: Vogue Ball
- Gallifrey Cabaret
- An Audience with Milly-Liu
- Grandmother's Closet
- 50 Hours of Focus
- Covid Song Cycle Watch Party
- STARS
- The Bitten Peach presents: Peach Chutney
- OUTSPOKEN
- Lady Bushra: Robbed
- The Cocoa Butter Club
- 50 Things That Shaped Me with Fisayo Akinade
- WASTELAND
- 14%: Off Side England Match Special
- 14%: Off Side England Match Special
- HSD73: RISE UP LIVE AGAIN
- In Conversation with Julie Hesmondhalgh
- Glowing Workshop Creche
- Glowing Creche
- Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival Oct 22
- Glowing Writing Workshop
- Sales and Information Assistant Interviews
- Ginny Lemon & Sister Sister: You Keep Me Hangin' On
- More Fiya
- Inua Ellams & Yomi Sode
- Afro Appreciation – Drink and Draw
- Afro Appreciation – The Workshop
- Cocktails & Cinquains
- Forward Prizes - Stream
- Hold
- Make A Scene: Death Becomes Her
- The Gossip Gays Live
- More Than Skin Deep: What is Your Dream of Care?
- Delia. D.
- 20 Stories High: Touchy + Anthology
- Hear Me Now Manchester Book Launch
- Split Britches: Last Gasp
- Forward Prizes
- Half Moon: Daytime Deewane
- Contact Young Company: Halo
- Lava Elastic
- Pigfoot: Hot in Here
- Black Angel 25
- Roma Havers: LOB
- Outbox: Groove
- Not Your Circus Dog: Not F**kin Sorry
- Spoken Movement: Family Honour
- Amy Vreeke: Glowing
- Contact Young Company X GOBSQUAD: While We Were Waiting, Something Changed
- Heatherlea Dance Presents
- HSD73 Present RISE UP22
- Oliver Junior
- Mr Scruff + DJ Sequinella Afterparty
- The Poetry Place – Renaissance of Poetry
- Binaural Beats Sharing + Danny H EP Launch
- NBS presents, Big Time, a vibrant summer spectacle
- eight-freestyle presents Robin Hood: The 80's Panto
- Fly on the Wall Press Showcase with Manchester Poetry Library
- Let’s Talk Zindabad
- Moor Allerton Prep School Presents: Ye-Ha!
- Item #014 (Creation of Knew)
- Item #013 (Cutting Ties) ((Turn Off the Tap) Before You Leave)
- Item #012 (***Nic Dwa Razy) (Artificial Night)
- Item #011 (A Fright to Remember) (Taking Up Space)
- Item #010 (Flesh and Bones)
- Item #004 (Jack and Drew Do Love)
- Item #003 (Uranium Lungs and Plutonium Dreams) (12/09/16 )
- Item #002 (Swings and Roundabouts) (Past the Pint of No Return: A Jukebox Musical)
- Item #001 (Killing Time)
- Works Ahead 2022
- Dance4Fun Summer Show
- SUDS Presents: Battle Of The Best
- CYC Auditions 2022
- Our Homes: Zine Launch
- DIS:Play - Guest Night
- The TaP Room ‘22 Tropic likes it’s hot’
- DIS:Play
- NBS Y3 Industry Showcase
- Hammond Graduate BA Musical Theatre Showcase
- Douglas Stuart in Conversation with Jackie Kay
- Sylph to Stratospheric
- Celebrating Syria: In the Eyes of Syrians: Double Vision and Sugar Cage Screening
- Celebrating Syria: Dabke - Learn to Dance Like a Pro
- Celebrating Syria: Printmaking for All
- Celebrating Syria: Made with Magic - Music Concert
- Laugh Your TaP Off
- An Evening with Warsan Shire
- Manchester Literature Festival Presents: Flux
- Platform Presents: The Showcase
- UMDS - Grecian Idolatry
- GFD North - Sunday
- GFD North - Saturday
- WORK IT with Julia Samuels
- Outspoken 2022
- Queer as…the body
- Queer as…saying yes
- Queer as…expressing yourself
- Queer as... the curriculum
- Between Tiny Cities
- Queer Joy and Radical Acts
- WORK IT with Nathaniel Hall
- WORK IT with Amy Vreeke
- WORK IT with Keisha Thompson
- WORK IT with Jenny Gaskell
- The Family Vogue Ball
- Palaver Party
- Miray Sidhom: The Bread We Break
- Sofie Hagen: Fat Jokes
- Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales: Together Again, Again
- The Enby Show with Divina De Campo
- Pecs: Kings of the North
- Emma Frankland - Hearty
- House of Suarez + Contact: Vogue Ball 2022
- Untold Orchestra - Queer Icons
- Scratch
- The Bitten Peach
- Contact Event Host Interviews
- Reece Williams: This Kind of Black
- Wez Builds a Theatre: Live Podcast Recording
- Cocktails and Cinquains
- First Time After Party
- We Will Rock You
- Monday Mic Night
- The House is On Fire
- Future Matter // Talks: Can a small music ecosystem affect large-scale culture change?
- Sickbabe: Podcast Launch
- Joy in Blackness: An Online Panel Discussion
- Fiercely, You Bloomed: Black Gold Arts Festival Launch with Kleaver Cruz
- Chanje Kunda: Plant Fetish On Demand
- Come to My Mum's: An Evening of Conversation
- Come to My Mum's: An Evening of Poetry and Storytelling
- The Queer House: Pink Lemonade
- News News News
- mandla rae: as british as a watermelon
- Ghetto Fabulous and Contact present: The Black Pride Manchester Extravaganza
- Ergon Theatre: The Wicked Problem
- eight-freestyle: Dick Whittington and His Amazing Cat
- Dibby Theatre: First Time
- CYC: Everything All of the Time
- BAC Beatbox Academy: Frankenstein
- Emergency 21
- Level Up Auditions 2021
- CYC Auditions 2021
- Summer Creative Camp
- Vogue Ball: HOMEground
- Every Brain
- Peaceophobia
- Saturnalia
- A Home for Grief
- Arden School of Theatre unTaPped Festival
- On Demand: Adam Ali - Hamoody
- On Demand: Roma Havers - LOB
- On Demand: Mark Croasdale - Spilling The Tea
- Queer Contact 2021: Nathaniel Hall - My Life, My Story Workshop
- Future Fires Short Course
- Queer Contact 2021: Melz - Radical Imagination and Unlocking Possibilities
- Queer Contact 2021:RebeccaNeverBecky Closing Party Kiki!
- Queer Contact 2021: An Evening with Cheddar Gorgeous and Friends
- Queer Contact 2021: Mark Croasdale - Spilling the Tea
- Queer Contact 2021: Gully Queens - House of Ghetto
- Queer Contact 2021: Dean Atta: Black Flamingo
- Queer Contact 2021: Roma Havers - LOB
- Queer Contact 2021: Outspoken curated by Ella Otomewo
- Queer Contact 2021: mandla rae - as british as a watermelon
- Learning to Swim on an Ironing Board
- Something To Say: Book Launch
- Queer Contact 2021: Russell T Davies in conversation with Nathaniel Hall
- Future Fires Short Course 2021 - Online
- Young Identity: One Mic Stand - Online
- In Equal Parts: World AIDS Day 2020
- I Read Me: More Black Authors in Schools
- Virtual Forest of Forgotten Discos
- Link Up: Queering the Dramaturg - Roma Havers & Frankie Blaus in Dialogue
- Link Up: Mark Croasdale –Staying“Well” In
- Link Up: Mandla Rae - Trauma and Black Womxnhood
- Link Up: Adam Ali- The Making of Arrival
- The Starter Kit
- BGA 2020: Symposium -Decolonising Theatre
- BGA 2020: Travis Alabanza - Smashing Down the Doors
- BGA 2020: The Garden Party - SunDay Sessions
- BGA 2020: Stacy Makishi - Live Art Social (distanced Club)
- BGA 2020: Notes on a Mic Drop
- BGA 2020: Mele Broomes -Surrounding by Listening to Manifestations of Love and Solidarity #4
- BGA 2020: HighRise Theatre - Lil.Miss.Lady
- BGA 2020: Darren Pritchard - Vogue Workshop
- BGA 2020: Cheryl Martin - One Woman
- BGA 2020: Beginners Intro to Cross Media Storytelling Workshop
- Young Identity Summer sessions
- Future Fires Short Course
- Be Ill-Disciplined
- Young People's Response Session: George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
- Postponed- Xana: Swallowing Your Idols
- Off Topic
- Future Fires Application Workshop
- House of Suarez + Contact: Vogue Ball 2020
- Contact Young Company: Baby Fever
- Young Identity and Contact: One Mic Stand
- Works Ahead 2019
- QC 19: Ad Infinitum: No Kids
- Young Identity and Contact: One Mic Stand
- CYC + Young Identity: Old Tools > New Masters ≠ New Futures
- CYC + BAC HOMEGROWN COMPANY: Ramping Up
- Queer Contact at YES: Queer Contact Open Forum
- Barber Shop Chronicles
- coletivA ocupação: When it Breaks it Burns
- Queer Contact at YES: performingborders
- QC 19: Outspoken
- QC 19: House of Suarez + Contact: Vogue Ball
- QC 19: Mother's Ruin
- Word to Action
- Contact Young Company + Hetain Patel: Oh Man
- Elmi Ali: Water Seeds Not Stones
- Keisha Thompson: Man On The Moon
- Amy Vreeke: The Year My Vagina Tried To Kill Me
- Nima Séne: Beige B*tch
- Rent Party
- Ockham's Razor and Contact: Switch + Tipping Point
- Young Identity and Contact: One Mic Stand
- Temporary Monument, Permanent Protest
- CYC Auditions 2018
- Young Identity and Contact: One Mic Stand
- Drama Drop 2019
- Music Drop 2019
- Arts Award
- NoSpace EP Launch
- Queer Contact '18: Outspoken
- Contact Young Company: She Bangs The Drums
- Rasa and Contact: Handlooms
- Contact and The Lowry present: Sophie Willan - Branded
- BAC Beatbox Academy: Frankenstein
- Power Through Diversity: Leaders Of The Future
- FS2017: Paul O'Donnell - We've Got Each Other
- FS2017: Taking Flight
- FS2017: Sarah Blanc - It Started With Jason Donovan
- FS2017: Elmi Ali - Water Seeds Not Stones
- FS2017: Demi Nandhra - Oil and Water
- FS2017: Big Foot...And Tiny Little Heart Strings
- Future Fires: Short Course (November)
- Black Sound Series - After Party
- Black Sound Series - Workshops
- Arts Award Drop (Autumn 2017)
- Contact Young Company: 15 Minutes
- Young Identity (Autumn 2017)
- Young Identity (beginners)
- Media Drop (Autumn 2017)
- Monday Drop (Autumn)
- Mixed Movement
- Young Identity: One Mic Stand
- RAW (Rhythm And Words)
- Mother's Ruin
- I told my Mum I was going on an R.E. trip...
- MIF17: FlexN Welcome
- Contact + Slung Low: The Siege Of Christmas
- Powder Keg: Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope)
- Mawaan Rizwan: Twerk In Progress
- Aakash Odedra Company: #JeSuis (In Progress)
- Keisha Thompson: Man On The Moon
- Dickie Beau: Re-member Me
- NUCLEAR
- Cheryl Martin: Who Wants To Live Forever?
- Uchenna Dance: The Head Wrap Diaries
- Shakespeare Schools Festival 2017
- FS2017: Desiree Burch - This Is Evolution
- FS2017: Sheyda Darab - Treasuries Of Mysteries
- FS2017: Jackie Hagan - This Is Not A Safe Space
- Why Festival 2017
- Le Gateau Chocolat: Duckie
- Young Identity: Hatch
- Peaches Christ, Jinkx Monsoon + Holestar: Hocum Pokem
- Black Sound Series
- FS2017: Kate O'Donnell - You've Changed
- Climate Of Fear
- Sean Cernow: Being Sebastian
- We’re Not Really Here – A Football Opera
- Jinkx Monsoon + Major Scales: The Vaudevillians
- Forced Entertainment: Real Magic
- Arts Award Drop (Summer 2017)
Meetings
- Test Zoom Link
- Creative Protagonists - Jevan & Daniel
- Agency comms / PR announcement
- Dibby theatre MCEP chat
- Budget chat
- Test Zoom Link
- Intro with Craig Bailey (Finance Manager)
- Contact/ Young Identity
- Lauren 1-1
- Olivia 1-1
- Sam 1-1
- Suzie and Kate catch up
- Contact / BAC meeting
- Equality and Diversity Action Planning
- The Agency Training Session
- Chloe 1-1
- Lauren 1-1
- Olivia 1-1
- Rory 1-1
- Artistic Team Meeting
- Roxy catch up
- Suzie & Kate catch up
- Rory 1-1
- Harris Youth Governance session
- Suzie & Afreena pre-meet
- Agency catch up
- Chloe 1-1
- Intro Meeting with Bex Tennenhaus (new trustee) - confirmed
- Lauren 1-1
- Harris catch up
- Sector Update: Latest COVID Guidance
- Ops Meeting
- Olivia 1-1
- Lauren 1-1
- Lauren 1-1
- Artistic Team Meetings
- SMT Meetings
- Staff Meeting
- Staff Meeting
- Artistic Team Meeting
- SMT daily catch-ups
- SMT meetings
- Staff Meeting
- Capital Team Meetings
- Staff Meeting
Webinars
- JOY IN BLACKNESS
- FIERCELY, YOU BLOOMED: BLACK GOLD ARTS FESTIVAL LAUNCH WITH KLEAVER CRUZ
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: ADAM ALI – HAMOODY
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: AN EVENING WITH CHEDDAR GORGEOUS AND FRIENDS
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: OUTSPOKEN CURATED BY ELLA OTOMEWO
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: DEAN ATTA - BLACK FLAMINGO
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: RUSSELL T DAVIES IN CONVERSATION WITH NATHANIEL HALL
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: MANDLA RAE – AS BRITISH AS A WATERMELON
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: Roma Havers – LOB
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: MARK CROASDALE – SPILLING THE TEA
- QUEER CONTACT 2021: MELZ – RADICAL IMAGINATION AND UNLOCKING POSSIBILITIES
- Test number 3
- New Test Zoom 22 April 2021
- Zoom Webinar Cog Testing
Other Events
- When All Is Said
- MELANIN MARKETS MCR
- Tara Theatre: Artists Make Space
- EMERGENCY 22
- With My Ear to the Wall
- Melanin Markets Manchester
- Mele Broomes: Body Remedy Movement Class
- Mele Broomes: Wrapped Up in This
- Sex with Cancer: The Grand Opening
- An Anthology of Joy
- Speakers Corner: Sisterhood
- Looking Forward to Tomorrow
- Devices
- Mele Broomes: Wrapped Up in This
- Queer Contact 2021: Dean Atta - Which Flag to Wave Workshop
- Sex with Cancer: Discussion Event
- Submerge: Making Intimate Performance
- Clore Leadership: Emerging Futures
- Word of Warning + Contact: Works Ahead 2020
- Fuel Theatre + Uninvited Guests: Love Letters Straight From Your Heart
- Young Identity: One Mic Stand - Online
- Postponed - David Hoyle: Ten Commandments
- TAKEOVER PARTY
- TAKEOVER WORKSHOPS
- SAMARA HERSCH: BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
- Amy Vreeke: The Year My Vagina Tried to Kill Me
- Wild Life FM
- A night of NoSpace
- Contact and MIF: A Drunk Pandemic - Sanitising the Working Class
- Contact and MIF: A Drunk Pandemic - Pub Quiz
- RAZE UP: NEW QUEER PERFORMANCE
- RAZE UP: PERFORMER AND ARTIST NETWORK
- RAZE UP: WORKSHOPS
- Contact and MIF: A Drunk Pandemic - Brewery Tour
- DRAG QUEEN STORY TIME AT Z ARTS
- I Am Because We Are
- Mother's Bloomers
- Writing Workshops: Temporary Monument, Permanent Protest
- Works Ahead 2018
- Queer Contact '18: Cha Cha Boudoir - Iconic
- Queer Contact ' 18: Drag Queen Storytime
- Queer Contact '18: The Newspaper Boy
- Queer Contact '18: 201 Dance Company - Skin
- Queer Contact '18: Make A Scene: Hedwig And The Angry Inch
- Queer Contact '18 : Mother's Ruin - Live at the Coliseum
- Queer Contact '18: Jamie Fletcher + Company & Contact - Dancing Bear
Exhibitions
- Queer Contact '18: Temporary Monument, Permanent Protest
- 30 Years Queer - Queer Youth In Focus
- Queer Contact '18: The House of Kings & Queens
- Making Contact: The Exhibition
Festivals
- Queer Contact 2021
- LINK UP
- Black Gold Arts Festival 2020
- Queer Contact Festival 2019
- Queer Contact Festival 2018
- Flying Solo Festival 2017
Projects
- Experience football, music, writing and theatre workshops at Contact
- Writing Drop
- Band School
- Studio School
- Artsmark and Arts Award
- Drama Drop
- Music Drop
- Contact Young Company
- Level Up
- I:CON
- RE:CON
- Future Fires
- The Agency
Development
- Contact Young Company X GOBSQUAD: While We Were Waiting, Something Changed
- MIRAY SIDHOM: THE BREAD WE BREAK
- CYC and Level Up x HighRise Theatre - Summer 2021
- From Me To Us
- Sex with Cancer
- The Starter Kit
- The Lost Summer
- A Week's Notice
- Baby Fever
- OLD TOOLS > NEW MASTERS ≠ NEW FUTURES
- Ramping Up
- OH MAN
- NIMA SÉNE: Beige B*tch
- The Forest of Forgotten Discos!
- Performance Live ‘I told my Mum I was going on an R.E. trip’
- I Am Because We Are
- She Bangs The Drums
- Oil and Water
- Man On The Moon
- Trans Creative and Contact: You've Changed
- CYC: There is a Light BRIGHTLIGHT
- I told my mum I was going on an R.E. trip...
- Dancing Bear
- Rites
- Faslane
- Diamond
- CYC: Under The Covers
- CYC: The Shrine of Everyday Things
- Triple Threat
- My Father's Kitchen
- Daughters of the Curry Revolution
- The Spalding Suite
- Big Girl's Blouse
- Get A Round
- Untouchable
- No Guts, No Heart, No Glory
People
- Zac Dodoo
- Yorusa Okbamichael
- Wayne Pilgrim
- Tsen Day-Beaver
- Tomi Fatumoju
- Sophie Rawcliffe
- Shakira Samms- Alcott
- Roxana Sayyad Eshgh Doost
- Reuben Gotts
- Ray Dean
- Monique Praise
- Molly Rankine
- Megan Keaveny
- Kubi Kaya
- Jacob Billington
- Inzinga Samms-Alcott
- Gareth Smith
- Faeeza Iftikhar
- Emily Whitaker
- Ellie Hughes
- Georgie Edwards
- Seth Douglas
- Benjamin Yates
- Lekhani Chirwa
- Becky Lindsay
- Conor Smith
- Naomi Harwin
- Yvette Saunders
- David Coverdale
- Jamie Curran
- Natalie Butler
- Secoura Grim
- Caitlin Gleeson
- Ryan Sanderson
- Bianca Prince
- Keisha Thompson
- Ash Cox
- Paul Olubayo
- Christie Cremin
- Laura Whitehurst
- Rachel de Ridder
- Chidi Lee
- Steven Moon
- Rachel Yuen
- Dereck Mzungu
- Megan Bennett
- Simon Alford
- Jonathon Hamer
- Amy Whitby-Baker
- Daisy O'Brien
- Faith Yianni
- Ellen Rogerson
- Bex Tennenhaus
- Faidat Ope
- Liam Whittaker
- Junior Akinola
- Ali Wilson
- Jack Dale-Dowd
- Rose Sergent
- Andy Lucas
- Connor Tierney
- Markus Hetheier
- Grainne Flynn
- Josh Wilkinson
- Carl Austin-Behan
- Kate Dorney
- Roxy Moores
- Matt Fenton
- Amelia Hall
- Sam Malik
- Lizzy Tait
- Jane Hall
- Helen Davison
- Chris Cox