Grenfell Fire: Six Months On SPID Founder Helena Thompson on BBC Radio London with Vanessa Feltz. The programme looked ahead to the memorial service for those lost in the Grenfell Tower fire. The multi-faith memorial service was held at St Paul’s Cathedral on Thursday 14 December 2017.
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Grenfell Matters + iAm 4.0 on BBC Radio London
Helena Thompson, Mel Cook and William Hearle from SPID, interviewed on BBC Radio London on the 12th of July 2017. To join us as a partner/volunteer, email us at: Youth@spidtheatre.com or call us on: 07903861674
SPID – Grenfell Matters on London Live
Founder of SPID Helena Thompson, discussing SPID’s “Grenfell Matters” event on London Live. https://spidtheatre.com/ To join us as a partner/volunteer, email us at: Youth@spidtheatre.com or call us on: 07903861674
Spid Theatre students at the First Light Awards
Spid Theatre students at the First Light Awards. London played host to the mini Oscars… It’s not the awards that are smaller than the famous gold statuettes, but the film-makers themselves. Aged from 5 to 25, the most talented were honoured at the First Light Awards in Leicester Square. Winners Thomas and Roman are two […]
Streets in the Sky – Trellick Tower on ITV
Streets in the Sky – a Spid Theatre production based around Trellick Tower
SPID Theatre – Trellick Tales on the BBC
Trellick Tales – a Spid Theatre production based around Trellick Tower. We were delighted to have the BBC on board filming the journey for a documentary as part of their Inside Out London programme. This was shown on Monday 2nd November at 7.30pm on BBC1. We are creatively delving into the fascinating social and architectural […]
Camden Fringe 2026 at SPID Theatre
SPID Theatre is proud to be part of the Camden Fringe for the second year running and is now welcoming enquiries from theatre-makers looking for a venue to stage their shows. Camden Fringe applications are free to submit via Eventotron page HERE, with a participation fee payable once accepted, and ticket prices must fall between £5 and £20. […]
Seventy two projects shortlisted for RIBA London Awards 2026
Seventy two projects, including the new geological gardens at the Natural History Museum, a hospital’s garden pavilion designed to connect patients to nature, and the transformation of a former power station into mixed used development, are among the 72 projects shortlisted for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) London Awards 2026. The shortlisted projects […]
Interview with Helena Thompson of SPID
Jeremy MaliesJanuary 2026 Helena Thompson is artistic director of SPID, a theatre company based at Kensal House in Ladbroke Grove. The development is a flagship (broadly modernist) pioneering social housing estate dating from 1937. Photo credit: Alex Brenner. Travelling a few stops east on the tube from Hammersmith for the meeting, I’ve seen the remains […]
The Dream
The Dream – A Play by Nnenna Samson-Abosi ‘The Dream’ is the story of a black British teen as he discovers police brutality and the rise of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in West London. The play, written by Nnenna Samson Abosi, explores black British history.