Cardboard Citizens holds hundreds of Performing Arts Workshops each year in Theatre, Music, Singing, Writing for Performance, Circus, and Dance, led by professional freelance artists and staff.

The Core Workshops are held weekly at the Crisis Skylight homeless centre in Tower Hamlets, and the Hostel Workshops are held at various hostels and day centres throughout London. In total, these workshops reached over 6o0 people this year!.

Cardboard Citizens' workshops enable homeless people to grow creatively by allowing them to take responsibility for their own learning and progression in a familiar and relaxed environment. The company strives to make the workshops a safe, creative space where participants can invest their trust and be positively engaged.

Workshop participants are encouraged to meet one-to-one with staff to discuss their situation, create personalised action plans, get signposted on to further support programmes, training, education, or employment, and join the Cardboard Citizens Company Membership.

Each year, we organise Performances of the homeless company members’ work at festivals and other venues around the UK. There public performances are an effective means of educating the public about homeless Londoners. Audiences are always surprised to learn that Cardboard Citizens' performers are homeless or ex-homeless people. While the performances provide participants with a great sense of achievement and satisfaction, they also help break down the public's pre-conceptions about homelessness and have a positive impact on the way in which communities view homeless people and their position within society.