We have 4 key values that shape everything we do:

CONTRIBUTING - Everyone Matters

​All of our team and everyone we work with contributes to shaping our programmes, helping us to learn and make an impact.

Our activities are participatory, an asset in the lives of the people we work with, making a positive contribution to the wider arts and voluntary sectors, seeking influence in both grassroots and strategic settings.

Without Mortal Fools, the young people of Northumberland that they co-create their productions with, would not be the confident and inspiring people they are. Mortal Fools are a vital arts organisation that have understood what young people need to thrive. Their impact is enormous.

- Wendy Scott, Cultural Development Manager at Northumberland County Council

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GROWING - Becoming More

We are bold and ambitious and not afraid of failure. We constantly look to learn from others.  
 
We champion a growth mindset and believe everyone, with the right level of challenge and support has the potential to become more. 

Working for Mortal Fools is an exhilarating learning process. They never stop or get comfortable. They support their team to grow and develop, with them, with every project. They are always looking for ways to progress; to move forward and actively respond to what’s happening around them.

- Mortal Fools Staff Member

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WITH OTHERS - Better Together

Our activities bring people together – to achieve, to learn and to have fun – with collaboration, co-creation and kindness at the heart of everything we do.

​We support the development of key skills like empathy, teamwork and resilience. We care, and this compassion helps us to build strong relationships, allowing us to be bolder and achieve more.

​“I have been lucky enough to experience a couple of productions by Mortal Fools over the years and I always leave feeling inspired, thoughtful and incredibly proud of the talent in our region. What really stands out in their productions is how the voices of local young people, and the issues they face/would like to share, are at the very heart of every production.

- North East Family Fun

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AS OURSELVES - Always Authentic

We encourage everyone to be their authentic, imperfect selves - with strengths, vulnerabilities, emotions and needs. We know embracing differences makes us all stronger, more empathetic and wiser.

We strive to meet the needs of everyone we work with, making sure we’re accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life. As a company, we do not copy or compete with others. We walk our own path, and we seek to work with those who also value authenticity and openness.

​Mortal Fools Youth Theatre has become such an important part of my daughter’s life. She has been struggling for a while with anxiety and feeling like she didn’t fit in.  At youth theatre, the support she has received - the freedom to express herself and use her creative side - has helped her to overcome a number of life challenges and feel safe to be whoever she wants to be. The opportunities Mortal Fools enable children to experience is fantastic and open up a new world of possibility.

- Mortal Fools Youth Theatre Parent