Please save the date, and register online via our Events page. NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of The Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre will be held at 8pm on Thursday 9th October 2025 to transact the following business. The meeting is open to all, however only voting Members may speak or…
We greatly thank the Norbury Knitters of Knitting Norbury Together for creating this banner to publicise our campaign to save Streatham Hill Theatre. The banner will be put on public display around Streatham, moving from place to place. Please keep a lookout for it, and if you see it, please post a photo on your…
The Streatham Festival team approached the current owners Ruach City Church through the auspices of local MP Steve Reed’s office to ask for access to the theatre for this year’s (2025) Streatham Festival. There was the possibility for a concert, a comedy event and guided tours. After a period of negotiations regarding content, costs and…
We’ve had a donation of programmes from Gilbert and Sullivan operas performed in the 1930s at Streatham Hill Theatre. Debbie Haughton found them in her late mother’s belongings, who left a note saying that the theatre did a season of these operas every year when was a child (she was born in 1929). SHARE LINK…
Brixton Chamber Orchestra will stage a concert at the theatre on 19th December at 7pm as part of their 2025 Christmas Estates Tour, staging 11 free gigs across Lambeth from Friday 12th to Sunday 22nd December. “We’re back with a seasonal setlist packed with something for everyone – from classical and grime to disco, pop,…
We have our next online meeting on Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 8pm. Please register via our events page. We’ll be discussing the campaign and the recent planning application. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail
We spoke with Dr Kate Jordan of Westminster University earlier in the year as she was researching the take over of former cinemas as places of worship, and had come across Streatham Hill Theatre, which while not a cinema, had been taken over. She has now published an article about this on the Historic England…
We have our next online meeting on Wednesday 28th January 2026 at 8pm. Please register via our events page. We’ll be discussing the campaign and the ongoing planning application. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail
Streatham Arts Community has reported on Lambeth’s launch of its new strategy. Amongst its key points are: Protecting grassroots music, theatre and arts venues through updates to licensing and planning rules, including embedding the ‘Agent of Change’ principle to protect existing venues from threat of closure due to noise complaints from new developments. Secure a community offer at…
Ruach City Church have written to local organisations regarding future community use of the theatre auditorium. “The below has been proposed in terms of pricing, however Bishop has advised that 2026 should be made free of charge for all community events and this will be funded by the generous donation of Ruach City Church members…
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Notice of AGM 9th October 2025 at 8pm
Please save the date, and register online via our Events page. NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of The Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre will be held at 8pm on Thursday 9th October 2025 to transact the following business. The meeting is open to all, however only voting Members may speak or…
Norbury Knitters Knit Banner for SHT
We greatly thank the Norbury Knitters of Knitting Norbury Together for creating this banner to publicise our campaign to save Streatham Hill Theatre. The banner will be put on public display around Streatham, moving from place to place. Please keep a lookout for it, and if you see it, please post a photo on your…
Streatham Festival Tour of the Theatre
The Streatham Festival team approached the current owners Ruach City Church through the auspices of local MP Steve Reed’s office to ask for access to the theatre for this year’s (2025) Streatham Festival. There was the possibility for a concert, a comedy event and guided tours. After a period of negotiations regarding content, costs and…
More Programmes added to the Archive
We’ve had a donation of programmes from Gilbert and Sullivan operas performed in the 1930s at Streatham Hill Theatre. Debbie Haughton found them in her late mother’s belongings, who left a note saying that the theatre did a season of these operas every year when was a child (she was born in 1929). SHARE LINK…
Brixton Chamber Orchestra Concert at Streatham Hill Theatre 19 December 2025
Brixton Chamber Orchestra will stage a concert at the theatre on 19th December at 7pm as part of their 2025 Christmas Estates Tour, staging 11 free gigs across Lambeth from Friday 12th to Sunday 22nd December. “We’re back with a seasonal setlist packed with something for everyone – from classical and grime to disco, pop,…
Campaign Meeting Wednesday 3rd December 2025
We have our next online meeting on Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 8pm. Please register via our events page. We’ll be discussing the campaign and the recent planning application. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail
Historic England: Reusing Historic Cinemas as Places of Worship
We spoke with Dr Kate Jordan of Westminster University earlier in the year as she was researching the take over of former cinemas as places of worship, and had come across Streatham Hill Theatre, which while not a cinema, had been taken over. She has now published an article about this on the Historic England…
Campaign Meeting Wednesday 28th January 2026
We have our next online meeting on Wednesday 28th January 2026 at 8pm. Please register via our events page. We’ll be discussing the campaign and the ongoing planning application. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail
Lambeth’s new Night Time Economy Strategy
Streatham Arts Community has reported on Lambeth’s launch of its new strategy. Amongst its key points are: Protecting grassroots music, theatre and arts venues through updates to licensing and planning rules, including embedding the ‘Agent of Change’ principle to protect existing venues from threat of closure due to noise complaints from new developments. Secure a community offer at…
Ruach issues hire rates for SHT
Ruach City Church have written to local organisations regarding future community use of the theatre auditorium. “The below has been proposed in terms of pricing, however Bishop has advised that 2026 should be made free of charge for all community events and this will be funded by the generous donation of Ruach City Church members…
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