Investing in creative and performing arts

In 2025, Leicester College was successful in a bid for funding from the Office for Students (OfS) to support a £1 million capital project. The funding is allowing the College to expand its Higher Education (HE) offer and develop additional flexible study modes to attract more students.

Refurbishing studio spaces for acting students

Creative and Performing Arts is one of the priority sectors identified by Leicester College to be supported by further investment funding of £190,000.

As part of the OfS funding, four rooms will be updated at the College’s City Skills Centre. The studio spaces on the 4th Floor where BA (Hons) Acting students practice, rehearse and learn will be enhanced and improved, with equipment to support rehearsal digital capture, editing and promotion capabilities.

The main rehearsal room will have new blackout rehearsal room curtains and purpose made dance flooring. The second studio will have an industry-standard green screen, new cameras and additional film equipment to support the students’ acting for camera work. They will also have a new film editing studio, and a radio drama and podcasting studio.

State-of-the art audio and visual equipment

The department’s Abbey Park Campus and Sue Townsend theatres will both benefit from upgraded sound systems, a new high end media digital suite, professional filming equipment, and Dolby surround sound capture and edit.

This will allow HE music students to not only learn using industry current equipment for their traditional live sound modules, but also experiment with immersive, multi-speaker sound design where they can be more creative in a dedicated large space.

Rob Hansel, Programme Area Manager at Leicester College, said: “This substantial new Higher Education investment in our Performing Arts and Music, and TV and Film resources, represents a continued commitment to our Creative Higher Education offer at Leicester College. Combined with our previous £252,000 investment, the area now has sustained industry standard environments, ICT and specialist equipment across Performing Arts, Music, Film, Graphic Design and Photography.”