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Queens Park Centre is a charity that opened in 1980 in the former Queens Park School, where it is still situated. Originally funded by Buckinghamshire County Council it was run for many years by its first Director, Malcolm Thackwray. From the outset, great importance was placed on ‘Arts for All’. A range of arts and crafts workshops were set up on a ‘pay as you go’ basis, an ethos which still resonates at the Centre today. Volunteer support was also welcomed and tutors with expertise, skills and enthusiasm ran weekly arts and crafts workshops for the benefit of children and adults alike. This meant that affordable opportunities and ‘hands on’ fun sessions have been continually available to people from Aylesbury and beyond for over 30 years.

In time, the ‘Limelight Theatre’ was added to the Centre, an intimate 120 seater theatre which has attracted numerous superb acts and productions over the years including Eddie Izzard, Lee Evans, Shaun Hughes, Jo Brand and bands such as Show of Hands, John Otway and Theatre Companies including Hull Truck and Frantic Assembly. The Limelight also has a strong history of supporting in house and community productions. In 2011, the Centre revived it’s very popular annual Pantomime with’ Jack & the Beanstalk’.

That the Centre survived when County Council funding was withdrawn in 1998 was remarkable and largely due to the hard work and commitment of the hundreds of supporters determined to keep it going. The Centre was also fortunate to have some financial support from Aylesbury Vale District Council and local educational trust, Hardings. They provided, and continue to give, much needed annual core funding, although about 75% of income comes from workshop fees and ticket sales.

As a charity with a huge breadth of programme on offer and commitment to affordable arts for all Queens Park Arts Centre and the Limelight Theatre remains the creative hub of Aylesbury and a much valued community resource.