Franklin's Northampton 1872

Franklin's Northampton 1872 Uncovering & sharing hidden history of Franklin's Hotel by Performing Room funded by NL Heritage Fund

We’re delighted to share that Performing Room has received funding from 🧡This support helps us continue creating inclus...
16/12/2025

We’re delighted to share that Performing Room has received funding from 🧡
This support helps us continue creating inclusive, creative spaces where people can find their voice, confidence, and connection through music and the arts — especially for those who face barriers to participation.

Thank you, Brit Trust ✨

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⚡🎶 **An Electric Festival Evening in Northampton’s Beautiful Cultural Quarter!** 🎶⚡Get ready for a night like no other! ...
26/08/2025

⚡🎶 **An Electric Festival Evening in Northampton’s Beautiful Cultural Quarter!** 🎶⚡

Get ready for a night like no other! On **Saturday 30th August, 6–10pm**, **Both Performing Room** and **The Lowdown ** Charity's are joining forces to host a very **special fundraising festival evening**—a vibrant celebration of **creativity, connection, and community**, right in the beating heart of Northampton’s Cultural Quarter.

This isn’t just an event—it’s a movement. A vibrant evening where **friends, families, neighbours, and colleagues** unite to celebrate the transformative power of music and the arts in supporting **mental health and wellbeing**.

✨ **What’s waiting for you?**
🎤 Inspiring live performances from Performing Room’s members on our **fabulous indoor music stage**
🎪 A buzzing **dance music marquee** in our courtyard for maximum **festival vibes** under the summer sky
🎶 A chance to step inside our **first-floor rehearsal rooms** and experience where the magic of creativity and learning happens
🍔 Tasty food & refreshing drinks to share with friends and family in a warm, inclusive atmosphere

This event is about more than music—it’s about **participation, inclusion, and transformation**. Performing Room is passionate about the impact live performance has on **confidence, learning, and wellbeing**, and together with the Lowdown, Northampton’s leading young people’s mental health charity, we’re raising vital funds to continue this life-changing work.

🌟 Whether you’re part of the SEND community, neurodivergent, in the care system, working in health & social care, education and outreach —or simply a lover of music and community—this night is for **you**.

📍 **Performing Room, Northampton’s Cultural Quarter** 9 Guildhall Road NN11DP
📅 **Saturday 30th August | 6–10pm**

Bring your **friends, family, and colleagues** share across your networks and platforms—and join us for an unforgettable night of celebration, connection, and festival energy while supporting two brilliant causes 🧡🫵🏽

📲 Please share this post and help us spread the word far and wide!
📌 Full details on the poster attached.

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A milestone moment at Performing Room!We were honoured to host Northamptonshire’s 'first-ever gaming networking event' r...
01/05/2025

A milestone moment at Performing Room!

We were honoured to host Northamptonshire’s 'first-ever gaming networking event' right here at our home at 9 Guildhall Road located in the heart of Northampton's beautiful Cultural Quarter.

The room was buzzing with creativity, collaboration, and innovation as we welcomed the region’s growing gaming community and showcased exciting new developments from the University of Northampton. We also unveiled Performing Room’s own gaming project—a digital recreation of Northampton’s historic town centre, developed as part of our multimedia heritage work originally funded by the The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The turnout exceeded all expectations—thank you to everyone who came, and a special shoutout to Vikaas Mistry, Paddy and all the lecturers from the University of Northampton, and Becky Carrier from Northampton Film festival, our Performing Room volunteers for their help to host this event, our gaming members, and all the members of Northamptonshire's gaming community for coming together to make this historic event unforgettable!

Here’s to building a future where creativity, heritage, and technology come together!

&echo UON Schools Engagement

28/01/2025

4 Minutes of new gameplay of the new area for the virtual tour.😀

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from our team.

Christmas has arrived in Franklin's Northampton 1872. It's snowing, and Christmas trees are on display. Merry Christmas ...
24/12/2024

Christmas has arrived in Franklin's Northampton 1872. It's snowing, and Christmas trees are on display. Merry Christmas to everyone from our team.

Today we celebrate 5 years since our urgent plea in the Northampton Chronicle and Echo led the resilient and extremely r...
22/11/2024

Today we celebrate 5 years since our urgent plea in the Northampton Chronicle and Echo led the resilient and extremely robust Performing Room charity to its wonderful new home at 9 Guildhall Road in the heart of Northampton’s beautiful Culture Quarter.

Five years ago, the Performing Room's beloved former music centre was demolished and turned into flats after a 10-year volunteer-led building campaign which successfully converted a derelict community centre and Social Club covering 2 floors in Northampton’s famous boot and shoe quarter into a vibrant and thriving modern day music and arts well being centre consisting of 8 bespoke fully equipped soundproofed music studios.

With support from our volunteers, we have once again embarked upon another monumental volunteer-led building campaign to make more music studio and rehearsal rooms available in our bew home taking us to 13 out of 17 completed soundproofed fully equipped rooms during this time across four floors including a state of the art ground floor music venue.

Through generous philanthropy and with a robust business plan, we once again have a tremendous opportunity to bring together Northampton’s leading charities and organisations to transform lives by supporting the immediate and long-term needs of the most vulnerable in our community.

Through our programmes and partnerships with festivals, theatres and local business, many (more than 15%) of our participants have found a passion for the arts and go on to work in the creative industry and hospitality sectors, and more than 50% go on to training courses and find employment.

You can read more about what we have achieved and how we have helped to catalyse the post-pandemic recovery for the arts in Northampton on the link to the newly published newspaper article below, plus you can pick up the last remaining available tickets for the groundbreaking feelgood pre-festive music and dance event Performing Room is running with Amazon and Creating Tomorrow Partnership at the Royal & Derngate this Sunday afternoon 24th November from 1.30pm 4.30pm called 'Amazon's Got Music to celevrate this landmark occassion' featuring a selection of wonderful performers 🎶

The virtual tour now has the session house which is now fully modelled needs a bit more colour doing to it but the sessi...
22/11/2024

The virtual tour now has the session house which is now fully modelled needs a bit more colour doing to it but the session house has been built

All saints church model has now been placed into the virtual tour and looks absolutely amazing in night time and daytime
05/11/2024

All saints church model has now been placed into the virtual tour and looks absolutely amazing in night time and daytime

For the virtual tour of Franklin's Northampton, the team are currently working on all saints church and it's looking goo...
01/11/2024

For the virtual tour of Franklin's Northampton, the team are currently working on all saints church and it's looking good

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9 Guildhall Road
Northampton
NN11DP

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Tuesday 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 2pm - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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