We are lucky enough to be receiving funding over five years from the City of London’s charitable funder, City Bridge Foundation! This will really help us to continue to run our service to promote inclusion in society for adults with learning disabilities in London.
Alice In Wonderland
We are back rehearsing for Alice In Wonderland and will have a show date soon.
We're back
QQF are now back rehearsing . We’ve been working in QCCA all day but from this Friday are moving to the Dome all day.
Covid & lockdown update
QQF resumed rehearsals in September and October for a while. Half of the staff and players have returned in December. Throughout most of lockdown, staff and performers have kept in touch via weekly meetings on Zoom and WhatsApp.
Christina has just finished making this quilt featuring the letters QQF.
Update April 2020
For obvious reasons QQF shut down in mid-March until further notice.
If you want to make a donation to help us keep going during the Covid-19 lockdown please donate via our Just Giving page here. (Click on the word ‘here’.)
We have been devising and rehearsing our new production of Alice In Wonderland. Rehearsals have been going well. We hope to get back on track in the Autumn and produce the show live in 2021.
Keep safe
QQF
Summer holiday
QQF celebrated the end of term with a bowling trip to Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes last Friday. The Autumn term starts on September 5th and 6th. Bon vacances! That’s French for ‘have a nice holiday!’
Romeo & Juliet in Camden April 5th
QQF present their production of Romeo & Juliet at Theatro Technis in Camden on Friday April 5th. This will be an afternoon show at 1.30 PM. Tickets from Ticket Source priced at £10 or £5 concessions (students, those on benefits or currently suspended from benefits - bring proof of benefit or suspension).
Click HERE for tickets
Latest QQF news
We have been busy rehearsing our production of Romeo & Juliet and are ready to take bookings in schools. We’ll also book a theatre for a public performance.
The football team QQ Fantastico now have a kit and play a friendly against a Talacre Sports Centre team in March.
We are a charity!
QQF is now a charity. The Charity Commission have approved our application for charitable status and our charity registration number is 1177196.
Q Q Fantastico play first match
The QQF football team, Q Q Fantastico, played their first six-a-side match on Friday December 1st against Talacre Titans. Fantastico won 14-10. Pictures to come soon.
QQF win award
Each week QQF run a Healthy Walk where anyone is free to join us walking in the local area. We walk around the Queen's Crescent area of Camden, including Gospel Oak and Kentish Town. We often visit Kentish Town City Farm.
Just before Christmas we won an award at the Camden Volunteer Awards ceremony for running our community walk.
Banksy show at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
QQF perform at an event at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on Thursday March 17th. The event is inspired by street artist Banksy and features QQF performing scenes from Romeo And Juliet with a Banksy twist alongside a Banksy-themed art exhibition by students from the John Dewey Independent Specialist College.
Mountview Academy is at Kingfisher Place, Clarendon Road, Wood Green, London N22 6XF.
Entrance is free. Show at 1 pm.
QQF launches at Camden Town Hall
QQF make their first public performance on Friday October 9th when Larraine Revah, the Mayor of Camden, introduces a special preview performance of excerpts from our first show "A Midsummer Ice Cream". This is at the Old Town Hall on Judd Street. The QQF players will perform for the Mayor and a small audience.