The Bounce Team
We’re a small team of artists, facilitators and producers.
We make work with children and young people through collaboration, curiosity and care.
Our practice is shaped by lived experience, both our own and that of the people we work with. This informs how we listen, how we respond, and how we create spaces where different ways of thinking and being can meet.
Artistic Director & Founder of Bounce Theatre
Louise Pendry
Writer, Director, & Drama Practioner
Louise has made theatre to fit performances on doorsteps through to packed mainstream theatres. However, her heart remains with giving people the best platform to share their stories, to be heard, and to hear themselves. She has a theatre degree, certificates in behaviour that challenges and in children's mental health, is a Speech Bubbles Practitioner and Makaton Level 1 trained.
Arts Practitioner
Harriet Ditmore
Drama, Dance, and Digital Arts Practitioner
Harriet is a multidisciplinary artist - performing, facilitating, and weaving digital technology into Bounce's work. Her love of storytelling originates from her grandad who lit up her childhood with oral storytelling. She has a theatre degree, certificates in behaviour that challenges and in children's mental health and is a Speech Bubbles Practitioner.
Visual Arts Practitioner
Natalie Rumbol
Visual Artist, Designer, and All-Round Maker
Natalie is a visual artist and all round maker for Bounce Theatre. She loves bringing these stories to life by animating people's ideas in unexpected places, turning ordinary spaces into something extraordinary. Natalie is a self-taught artist AKA a natural talent - which we were delighted to discover when she started volunteering with us.
Our Collaborators
We partner with brilliant people who share our values to create our work.
The Home Café
The Home Café is a vibrant not for profit café and community space in the heart of Earlsfield. The not for profit café supports a range of community projects - including our creative health, youth theatre, and holiday projects.
Anstee Bridge
Bounce has partnered in many projects with Anstee Bridge, part of Achieving for Children. Since 2008, Anstee Bridge have supported vulnerable young people (11-16yrs) struggling with their social, emotional, and mental health. They support their students through creative workshops to build confidence and resilience in a nurturing, therapeutic, safe, and fun environment.
Speech Bubbles
Bounce is a proud partner in the national charity Speech Bubbles. Speech Bubbles is for children aged 5-7 who find it difficult to develop the speech, language and communication skills they need for life: for socialising, for learning, for wellbeing, and for good mental health.
The Paradise Cooperative
The Paradise Cooperative is a community-led organisation based in Wandsworth, transforming unused urban spaces into vibrant gardens for learning, growing, and wellbeing. They promote sustainable living through hands-on education, volunteering, and inclusive events that bring people together.
Can Do Connections
Can Do Connections is on a mission to bring support to parents of late talkers with high quality Speech Therapy. We collaborate with them to inform our practice and create opportunities for our families to access high quality support.
Sensory Pathways CIC
Sensory Pathways provides occupational therapy support for families of children with sensory needs. We collaborate with them to inform our practice and create opportunities for our families to access high quality support.
Our projects have been commissioned and funded by a wide range of partners, including local London authorities, Children's Services, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England, The National Archives, and mental health charities. These partnerships reflect that quality, trust, and social impact is embedded in everything we do.