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Welcome To Greentop
Greentop Circus Centre is one of the UK’s leading circus centres with classes and courses for adults and young people, professional circus artist development, and tailor-made programmes and events for schools, communities and businesses. Greentop is a charity with over 25 years’ experience as the region’s circus centre.
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Youth classes

youth classes
A range of circus classes in aerial skills, acrobatics and skills from juggling to wire walking. Age appropriate classes for 3-18 year olds.
Adult classes

adult classes
Discover a fun, social and alternative way to develop your fitness, creativity and new skills. Six-week courses, suitable for all levels from complete absolute beginners to advanced.
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Hire Us
Greentop are available to hire for a host of occasions, celebrations and events. We cover everything from venue hire to circus skills sessions in schools.

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Buy a unique circus experience for your friends or family.
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Greentop Circus presents Aerial and Circus Skills Sessions at the #SheffieldShowcase this September
As part of the Sheffield Showcase programme, Greentop Community Circus are running three sessions for families, young people and adults across the day on Saturday 2 September. Family Fun Circus Skills Session (ground-based), 10–11:30am Youth Aerial Skills Taster session, 1:30–3pm Adults Aerial Skills Taster Session, 3:30–5pm For information and booking, click here. The full Sheffield Showcase Programme can be found here.

Join the Circus this summer! Summer of Circus 2023
Join the circus this summer! Greentop is bringing opportunities for families to explore and develop aerial and circus skills this summer There is something for everyone this summer with Greentop Circus, from 2-Day Circus Clubs, a chance to make your own show in our 5-Day Circus Camp, free classes for local kids and to see Troupe, our amazing young band of performers touring this summer! We’re thrilled to invite you to our 2-Day Circus Clubs where young people can join us at Greentop and develop skills in aerial hoop, trapeze, silks and floor-based circus skills this July & August 2023....

July 2023 Bulletin
Summer is here and we are thrilled to invite you to our Troupe 2023 production “Connections.” We have something for everyone in our Summer of Circus, including 2-Day Clubs and a 5-Day Circus Camp. More youth, family and adult taster sessions on September 2nd. Read More…

May 2023 Bulletin
For those wanting to try out classes, we have Tasters coming up on the 20th of May for Youth Aerial and a Taster Silks class on the 8th of June for adults. The dates for our new block of youth and adult progression classes are included. We have news on the summer holiday programmes and artist workshop Rigging Fundamentals for Aerial Performance with Bryan Donaldson. Also…we are designing new Greentop t-shirts for our outreach team that will be available for our wider community to buy too, vote for your favourite design! Read More…

April 2023 Bulletin
There’s a lot going on with some exciting opportunities for Artist Development, news of new staff, trustee appointments and Residency winners. Read More…

Residency Awards – congratulations to Jules Cooke and Emily Reed
We are delighted to announce that the Residency Award has been made to Jules Cooke in the development of her clown show Put Your Face On and the mini Residency to Emily Reed. Congratulations and many thanks to all the applicants -we had a very difficult set of decisions to make. We hope to be announcing a further award this autumn. This opportunity has now closed Greentop Community Circus Centre Residency Awards Open Call Deadline for submission: 12 noon of 15th February 2023 Greentop Community Circus Centre is a dedicated centre for circus arts , serving the North of...

February 2023 Bulletin
We have an exciting programme of professional development for artists, news of our bursary fund for youth and adults and opportunities to join the Greentop board of trustees and marketing team. Read More…

Chair And Trustee Opportunity
Greentop Community Circus Centre is seeking a new Chair and Trustees Are you passionate about growing creative opportunities? We are looking for people to play a pivitol role in harnessing our vision and strategy to benefit our neighbourhood, artists and people across South Yorkshire. Why should you join us? This is an exciting time to be joining the Greentop team with a chance to shape the next 3 year business plan and build on a strong response to the Covid pandemic. We very much welcome your skills and talent, and we believe that in return this trusteeship will offer you...

Apprenticeship Opportunity
GREENTOP CIRCUS APPRENTICESHIP Deadline: Monday 23rd January 2023 Start Date: as soon as possible Greentop Community Circus Centre is looking for a highly motivated, hands-on young person seeking to make the most of a unique development opportunity. The apprenticeship will gain a Community Activator Apprentice (Circus) Level 2 qualification, with training to support Greentop in the delivery of high quality projects and programmes that engage and support people from a range of backgrounds. You will be learning a range of circus disciplines and teaching skills and will assist in delivering circus in both school and community settings across the South...

Dec Bulletin
We hope you all have a wonderful winter break and new year! We want to inform you of what youcan look forward to in the new year! Get a head start and book onto the classesand circus artist development workshops before the new year.Greentop Circus will be shut between Fri 23rd December – 2nd January 2023 Read More…

Holiday Sessions (21st Dec & 22nd Dec)
Free Healthy Holiday circus skills sessions for Christmas 2022. A fun filled variety of circus skills to try – diabolo, flower sticks, plate spinning, juggling. Come along, give it a go and you might just surprise yourself! Free lunch is provided for every booked child. Wed 21st December 2022 10:00am – 12:00pm 4 – 7 year olds 1:00pm – 3:00pm 8 – 11 year olds Thu 22nd December 2022 10:00am – 12:00pm 4 – 7 year olds 1:00pm – 3:00pm 8 – 11 year olds FREE Book Here We are looking forward to delivering circus skills...

Greentop Christmas Cabaret
Greentop Christmas Cabaret Friday 16th December 2022 7:30pm Doors Open 8:00pm Show Come and celebrate this Christmas with us for a fantastic night at Greentop Circus. There will be music, dancing, a bar and a full line up of amazing professional circus acts from the North of England. Recommended age 12+ £15 full / £10 concession. Book Tickets