03/10/2026
🎭🌈 NEXT STAGE IS 4! 🌈🎭
Today marks four years of Next STAGE Performing Arts… and looking back through these memories has made me realise just how much has changed.
What started as an idea has grown into something I could never have fully imagined.
Four years of babies taking their first little steps into Let’s Pretend.
Four years of children finding their voices, making friends and growing in confidence.
Four years of drama classes, schools, libraries, parties, performances and special events.
Four years of new classes, new venues, new opportunities and so many wonderful families coming through the doors.
And somewhere along the way, Next STAGE became much more than a collection of classes.
It became a community. ❤️
Some of the tiny children in those early photographs are growing up. Our drama pathway now takes children from their earliest imaginative play right through to Junior Drama, Drama Academy and Senior Drama. Older students are helping younger ones. Children are performing, creating, mentoring and doing things they once might never have believed they could do.
There have been so many changes. So much growth. So much expansion.
But the reason behind it has never changed:
Building confidence through creativity.
To every child who has walked into one of my classes, every parent and grandparent who has trusted me with them, every school, venue, member of staff and person who has supported Next STAGE along the way — thank you.
You built this with me.
Here’s to 4 years of Next STAGE Performing Arts… and to everything still to come. 🌈🎭❤️
Lisa x
Next STAGE Performing Arts | Est. 2022
