Find your next step with Alara
Latest news · 20 October 2026: Creative opportunities in Kirkby: what Alara is building. Read the current programme, venue and progression update.
Take part: Register interest in free Kirkby Creative Connections sessions for adults. Dates and booking details will follow once confirmed.
Develop your creativity: Explore our proposed Pathway to Work for practical skills, professional insight and potential suitable paid opportunities. Community participation is also for enjoyment and connection.
Help make it happen: Discuss business, funder and community support or explore volunteering.
See the evidence: Confirmed progress and the experience behind Alara. Alara Community Arts CIC was incorporated on 30 January 2026, company number 17001682. Its first community programmes are in preparation.
Performance photographs on this page show the team’s earlier commercial work through Alara Entertainment Ltd, a separate company. Concept images illustrate the proposed space. Neither represents a completed CIC programme or an open Kirkby venue.
From a bold idea to a lasting community asset
Alara is now an incorporated Community Interest Company, with governance, safeguarding and delivery plans in place. We are progressing a prospective town-centre home at 9 Market Square while developing the partnerships and investment needed to open it well. Nothing is being rushed: every step is focused on creating something useful, welcoming and sustainable for local people.
What we are building together
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Perform
- Theatre productions
- Live performances
- Comedy
- Music
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Create
- Creative workshops
- Drama classes
- Arts activities
- Skills development
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Connect
- Community projects
- Volunteering
- Social groups
- Partnerships
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Grow
- Confidence
- Employability
- Wellbeing
- Leadership
- Young people
Performance, character and creativity
Photographs from the team’s professional performance and production archive.
Professional archive · Alara Entertainment Ltd is a separate company. These images do not show completed CIC programmes. Read the current evidence.
Project update — October 2026
A future creative home
We are working through the formal process for a prospective space at 9 Market Square, including plans, access, approvals and fit-out preparation.
Funding the next chapter
Several community and programme funding applications are now submitted, with further carefully matched opportunities in development.
Partnerships are growing
Conversations with local organisations, public services, businesses and community partners are helping shape a stronger, more connected project.
Contact us
Want to help shape what comes next? We welcome conversations with residents, artists, volunteers, community groups, schools, funders and businesses who share our ambition for Kirkby.
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