Welcome to Charity Shop DJ Productions
We are a production company based in Derbyshire, UK.
" What you do is facilitate understanding between agendas that think they are different. You make collaboration possible where previously it wasn't even considered. " Jonathan Wallis, Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
All of our work aims to break down barriers between individuals, communities, sectors and interests.
This is why we’ve worked in India, Syria, Australia, and across the UK.
It’s why we work with local authorities, museums, schools and universities.
With festivals, businesses and voluntary organisations.
It’s why we do gigs, put on parties , run workshops, create venues, work in Parliament, tour international borders.
“ Charity Shop DJ manages to be radical through the act of celebrating.” Jacky Fleming, Cartoonist, Guardian and Daily Mail.
Our work is about the power of people, and the power of dialogue and communication.
“ You are telling a different story. It is a real story about real people. “ Tony Benn
Our work aims to produce a creative trajectory which is propelled beyond the life of any project or event.
We believe that a successful piece of work should be a beginning.
This belief lies at the heart of our work.
“Your magic has had a lasting impact. “ Oxfam.
Our work aims to encourage communication through exploring and valuing our shared pasts and common experiences, and by creating a single space in which we can dare to shape our common aspirations for the future.
“ Ultimately, Charity Shop DJ is a celebration of the individual as much as it is of the collective, and a movement that thrives more on the involvement and responses of those who come across it, than of even the originators themselves..” Jim Hall, Project Particpant - now the Charity Shop DJ Official Tweeter.
"Most rewarding was the pleasure of sharing the love of music with so many interesting people; people just like me, and nothing like me, that I might otherwise pass by in the street. It is quite a fantastic seed you sow, that enriches us all". DJ Badlucky, Project Participant
How do we do this?
At Charity Shop DJ Productions we are committed to creating work that redefines culture, ownership, and value.
We imagine and we build ideas. We plot and invent. We will work with partners and deliverers locally, nationally and internationally to build projects and events that are bespoke, participatory, collectively driven. We succeed, and deliver, and bring value for money.
“You went down a storm. You pulled it out of the bag for us “. Keith Jeffrey, QUAD, Derby
“Your approach helps us achieve more for less”. Local Authority Partner.
We can offer
Productions
Projects
Events
Workshops
Parties
Selected Work
Why Do We Do This?
We believe that everybody has a desire to communicate, to tell their story, to let the world know that they matter.
But, as a result of borders - either real or imagined - they often don’t get a chance.
We want to find a common ground and a single language, to realise and shape the validity of our common experience in a spirit of equality and celebration.
Let's Play!
Who We Are
The founders and producers of Charity Shop DJ work in music festivals, libraries and television archives, music, truck driving, and market trading. We work with many skilled artists, producers and audiences, and partners from all sectors.
Some of our previous and existing partners
Arts Council England; London International Festival Of Theatre; WOMAD; WOMADelaide, Australia; Renaissance East Midlands; the British Council; QUAD Derby; The Association of Charity Shops; Turner Contemporary; Derby City Museum and Art Gallery; Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford; The Horniman Museum, London; Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival / Film Four; Art Vinyl; Emerge Festival; NHS; Nottingham Trent University; the Harley Gallery; Glastonbury Festivals; Derby Feste; Leicester Comedy Festival; Northampton Volunteering Centre; Wirksworth Festival
