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Timeline

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  • 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…

  • Heritage holds the key to better places

    New research from Historic England suggests emotional connection to historic places is fundamental to our wellbeing, as its chairman Lord Neil Mendoza explains in an article in Arts Professional. According to compelling new research from Historic England and the University of Glasgow, our emotional connections to historic places are fundamental to our mental health and…

  • Proposed Changes to Planning Rules Seriously Impact Theatres

    The Theatres Trust has highlighted that key proposed amendments to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) would significantly weaken the protection for theatres in the planning system. Considered alongside the proposal to remove Theatres Trust as a statutory consultee, there could be serious consequences for cultural infrastructure in England if these amendments are adopted.  They…

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