Performing Arts Club

Our Performing Arts Club is available to people with learning disabilities aged 18 years and over and meets every Monday evening from 6pm – 7.30pm at The Bridge at Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church.

The aim of our Performing Arts Club is to give our members the opportunity to meet and make friends with like-minded people, to learn new skills and have fun.

Members enjoy singing, dancing and acting every week and are given the opportunity to perform in public at the Bishop’s Stortford Carnival and our annual Grove Cottage in the Park event.

Our Performing Arts club helps our members to have:

Our Performing Arts Club meets 46 weeks a year and costs £5 per session. Payment can either be made in cash on the door or by invoice. Existing members with a query about this club should contact performingarts@mencapgrovecottage.org. New members wishing to join this club should email om@mencapgrovecottage.org or call 01279 656085.

“S is a really happy girl when she comes back from Performing Arts club. She always looks forward to Mondays because she meets her friends. When S goes to Grove Cottage, I have time to be with my son”.

Grove Cottage aims to be a fully inclusive organisation and is committed to supporting people through financial hardship. We can therefore, on a case by case basis, subsidise the cost of our services. If you would like to speak to our Operations Manager confidentially about this please email om@mencapgrovecottage.org.