Our mission is to produce high quality contemporary theatre that helps young people to fulfil their potential.

A small scale professional company based at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon working with c. 40,000 children and young people and c.100 theatre makers annually. Work includes new commissions toured regionally, specific outreach and education projects and youth theatre. The company also works nationally and regionally on a wide range of collaborative projects with organisations such as Arts Council England, Independent theatre Council, Birmingham Rep, The Unicorn Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, Cheltenham Everyman, Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre. Locally, the company works closely with Artsmad and Wiltshire & Swindon Arts Alliance.

Sixth Sense is regularly funded by Arts Council England Swindon Borough Council.

Sixth Sense continually develops and disseminates good practice in the following fields:
•    Artist contracts
•    Theatre art form development process
•    Rights of the child
•    Access and inclusion
•    Strategic alliance
•    Business planning
•    CPD and staff development
•    Governance

Sixth Sense’s Artistic Producer is also a serving Board Director of
•    The Independent Theatre Council
•    Theatre for Young Audiences UK
•    ASSITEJ (l’Association International du Thêatre pour I’Enfance et la Jeunesse).