Neon Performing Arts

Who we are

NEON Performing Arts is a registered not for profit organisation, founded in 2013.

House of NEON is the new cultural venue and pilot operating model of NEON Performing Arts, and the public-facing name for our producing, training and creative enterprise activity.

House of NEON currently operates as a pilot cultural hub in Vauxhall, enabling NEON to test, refine and evidence sustainable models for creative training, production, events and earned-income activity.

From 2029, House of NEON will expand into a purpose-built Creative Incubator at Albert Embarkment awarded under a Section 106 community commitment from Urbanest Developers and Lambeth Council.

This long-term venue will provide permanent, rent-free cultural infrastructure and will formalise the models developed through the pilot phase.

Across the pilot and future incubator, House of NEON:

• Delivers professional training and progression pathways

• Produces youth-led, NEON-owned, commissioned and partner events

• Operates memberships, studio hire and creative enterprise activity

• Creates paid opportunities for young people and emerging artists

• Provides inclusive community access alongside professional production

• All surplus generated is reinvested into youth employment, bursaries, free and subsidised access, festivals and community programmes.

  House of NEON is not simply a venue, it is a phased model for long-term cultural infrastructure, designed to strengthen the creative economy while remaining accountable to public benefit and social value.

Our culture and values

Values which should be lived within the team and demonstrated in our work with stakeholders:

• Excellence
  Be the best you can be; deliver high quality work.
  We hold ourselves to high artistic, professional and operational standards.

• Effectiveness
  Good enough is good enough; balance quality, cost, time.
  We make decisions that are ambitious, realistic and sustainable.

• Equity / Equality
  Be fair in your treatment of each other and with beneficiaries, funders and clients, whilst expecting this to be reciprocated.
  We embed access, inclusion, fairness and transparency in all relationships and systems.

• Creative Entrepreneurship
  Innovate, adapt, demonstrate resilience.
  We build creative work within viable economic models that support long-term impact.

• Enquiry
  Be curious and challenged. We share our learning; celebrate success; learn from mistakes.
  We reflect, evaluate and improve continuously.

• Accountability
  We take responsibility for our decisions, resources and impact, and are accountable to our communities, partners, funders and the public benefit we exist to serve.