Immediate support to help manage urgent financial needs

Our Stop-Gap Grants can provide you with immediate support to help manage urgent financial needs when you have nowhere else to turn. If financial worries are holding you back, we’re here to support you.

Grants are generally no more than £500, although we may consider requests up to £750 at our discretion.

We offer modest grants for Capital Building Projects that benefit actors directly.

BYO Hub is British Youth Opera's digital portal, which offers online learning, exclusive career events and easy applications to BYO's face-to-face programmes.

The next generation of singers, directors, designers, stage managers and music staff grew up online and so that's where we are too.

The Open Programme offers lectures, workshops and short, practical courses in traditional arts and crafts.

Our programmes are open to anyone over the age of 18 and suit all levels of ability and experience, from beginners to seasoned practitioners.

This is an online training course. It is used within the Theatre industry to develop drawings for a range of different uses. If you want to be able to create entertainment-focused drawing, modelling and rendering this course is for you.

Vectorworks Spotlight is the entertainment industry-leading software that’s an all-in-one design, documentation and production solution. With an extensive suite of entertainment-focused drawing, modelling and rendering tools, Spotlight can produce detailed paperwork and presentations. Create an immersive experience with cutting-edge technology like virtual and augmented reality and rendered panoramas.

A special trial version of the software can be downloaded enabling students who don’t have the software to access the course.

The course is specifically tailored to the needs of users in a theatrical and live events environment, it consists of seven parts and is structured so you can create simple drawings after Part 1. The course will provide you with a foundation of skills, allowing you use the program straight away and build your knowledge. The course should take approximately 24 hours to complete, this will vary from person to person as it structured to allow you to you work at your own pace.