# FORMIDABILITY

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1214473
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Aug. 11, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1214473


## Contact

- **Address:** C B S O CENTRE, BERKLEY STREET, BIRMINGHAM
- **Postcode:** B1 2LF
- **Phone:** 07968436588
- **Email:** info@formidability.org
- **Website:** https://www.formidability.org



## Activities

**Objects:** TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR,BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE PERFORMING ARTS, AND TO WORK TO INCREASEACCESS TO THE ARTS FOR ALL THOSE WITH DISABILITIES.

**Activities:** formidAbility is a disability-led professional opera company based in Birmingham and working across the UK. The charity is breaking new ground in accessibility and inclusion in opera and classical music for Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people by creatively integrating access into all public performances, complemented by community and educational workshops.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** People With Disabilities, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Scotland
- Throughout England




## Trustees

- Alison Mary Lupton Smith — appointed Jan. 8, 2024
- Andrea Brown — appointed Aug. 13, 2025
- Fiona Williams — appointed Aug. 13, 2025
- Ian Massa-Harris-McFeely — appointed Aug. 13, 2025
- Laura Jayne Willis — appointed Jan. 8, 2024
- Patricia St Hilaire — appointed Sept. 14, 2022
- Rosemary Elizabeth Loker — appointed Sept. 14, 2022
- Theodora Beckett — appointed July 30, 2024
- Thomas William Shakespeare — appointed Aug. 13, 2025