Viv Gordon Company

What Viv Gordon Company does

Viv Gordon Company is a Bristol-based, UK non-profit arts organisation founded in 2020 and led by artist and activist Viv Gordon. It produces performances and multi-artform work shaped by the lived experiences of adult survivors of child sexual abuse, operating across six core creative strands: Theatre, Music, Film, Creative Communities, Creative Training, and In Our Own Words. Its core technology and method is a multi-artform creative approach that blends theatre, music, poetry, and collective action, delivered through live performances, workshops, safe-space community sessions, and digital content (website, newsletter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Eventbrite).

The organisation's go-to-market is community-led: it engages survivors directly through grassroots outreach, survivor networks, and public-facing campaigns, and engages the arts and cultural sector through advocacy and research. The 2025 launch of The Missing Millions report, a first-of-its-kind CSA survivor-led study of 88 respondents quantifying the exclusion of an estimated 11 million UK adult CSA survivors from arts and cultural life, extends its surface from artistic production into research and policy influence.

Revenue is generated through grants and trust funding from charitable foundations (e.g., Barnwood Trust for UpFront Survivors Gloucester), with supporting partners such as GRASAC. No commercial pricing model, earned-income streams, or corporate sponsors are disclosed. The organisation has 8 employees, operates nationally across the UK from its Bristol headquarters, and has no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, or external investment.

Name

Viv Gordon Company

Legal name

Viv Gordon Company

Website

https://vivgordoncompany.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Viv Gordon Company is a Bristol-based UK non-profit that creates theatre, music, film, and community arts work led by adult survivors of child sexual abuse, funded by charitable trusts and foundations across six creative strands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Performing Arts

NAICS

Other Performing Arts Companies (711190), Motion Picture and Video Production (51211), Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (711510), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Protection, Child Protection & Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Response (BPAGAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Creative Writing & Storytelling (Fiction, Poetry, Memoir) (EDAAAGAI)

Keywords

• Survivor-led theatre
• Community arts
• Trauma-informed performance
• Creative training programmes
• Arts sector research

Headquarters

HQ city

Bristol

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grants and Trust Funding: Funded by charitable trusts and foundations such as Barnwood Trust for specific projects like UpFront Survivors Gloucester

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Viv Gordon Company is a Bristol-based arts organisation that creates performances and multi-artform work shaped by the lives of adult survivors of child sexual abuse, blending theatre, music, poetry, and film. It runs survivor-led community programmes, creative training for the arts and cultural sector workforce, and a women-survivors network, alongside research and reporting such as The Missing Millions.

Product overview

Viv Gordon Company is a survivor-led arts organization led by artist and activist Viv Gordon. The company creates performances and multi-artform work shaped by the lives of adult survivors of child sexual abuse. The portfolio consists of six core creative strands: Theatre, Music, Film, Creative Communities, Creative Training, and In Our Own Words. These offerings are unified by the company's mission to confront the politics of survival through art, blending theatre, music, poetry, and collective action. The Missing Millions research report complements the artistic work by providing evidence-based advocacy for inclusion of CSA survivors in the arts sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Theatre Stage performances created by the company, often shaped by the lived experiences of adult survivors of child sexual abuse, presented for general arts audiences and partner venues.

Quantifiable outcome

• One in six adults (11 million) feel excluded from arts and cultural life - documented in The Missing Millions report
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• GRASACsupportingOthersSupporter of the UpFront Survivors Gloucester project, working alongside Barnwood Trust funding.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mind the Gap: Performing arts company producing work with and for learning-disabled artists. Directly comparable as a UK arts organization creating theatre and multi-artform work led by/expert-by-experience community members.
• Diverse City: UK performing arts company championing diversity and disability. Viv Gordon Company's named collaboration partner and endorsement source; comparable multi-artform, expert-by-experience-led model and UK arts charity structure.
• Cardboard Citizens: UK theatre company working with people facing homelessness and excluded communities. Highly comparable as a UK arts charity using performance and lived experience to drive social change with vulnerable groups.
• Clean Break Theatre Company: UK theatre company working with women who have experienced the criminal justice system or are affected by it. Comparable model of theatre produced with/for an excluded/expert-by-experience community, with advocacy and research elements.
• ARC Stockton (Arts & Recovery in the Community): UK arts charity creating opportunities for people in recovery from substance misuse. Comparable community-led arts model with lived-experience methodology and small charity/trust-funded operations.

Emerging players

• Candoco Dance Company: UK contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. Comparable as a small UK arts charity producing expert-by-experience-led multi-artform work with a sector-advocacy function.
• StopGAP Dance Company: UK integrated dance company featuring disabled and non-disabled artists. Comparable multi-artform approach using lived experience to drive creative work and challenge sector exclusion.

Others

• SafeLives: UK charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse. Comparable mission adjacency around CSA/abuse survivor support and policy advocacy, though operating in social services rather than arts production.
• NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children): Major UK child protection charity. Comparable mission alignment on child sexual abuse prevention and survivor support, though vastly larger and operating as a broad child-welfare organization rather than an arts charity.

Broad incumbents

• Battersea Arts Centre: London-based arts centre producing and commissioning innovative performance with social impact. Comparable as a UK arts organization engaging marginalized communities, though operating at much larger scale and broader remit.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@vivgordoncompany
• Facebookfacebook.com/VivGordonCompany
• Instagraminstagram.com/vivgordonco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/viv-gordon-company

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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