Dates for our next event will be published here :

28-30 April 2023 – open to bookings around the end of November ’22
10-12 November 2023 – bookings open around the end of May ’23
3-5 May 2024 – open to bookings around the end of November ’23

To get the dates and booking form link first join our group on SPOND https://group.spond.com/KYDCU
After SPOND we send the link out to the mailing list – sign up to our mailing list on MailChimp or
Lastly it is posted onto Facebook, but it sold out within 2 weeks of release last time, so be quick!

As always, this event will be run on a co-op ethos, and without a desire to make any profit. The usual great range of workshops are taught by those attending the event, featuring some of the UK’s most experienced improvisers & workshop leaders.

The co-op ethos means that we can bring you these weekends for outstanding value.
The cost of this event will be £160pp twin share/double room, or £200pp for a single room.

The initial deposit is £50 with the balance due of either £110 (double/twin) or £150 (single).
The cost includes all teaching, buffet service food, self service coffee, tea and accommodation – you only need to pay for evening drinks from the bar or snacks and Costa coffees.

Arrive on Friday and check in from 2pm. Registration begins at 5pm, then we have dinner and a warmup and workshop at 7.00pm. With all food an accommodation covered in your rate, the weekend concludes with lunch on Sunday. If you arrive by train, we suggest you book your return for after 3pm. Stations are either STAFFORD (quickest from London) or STONE (walking distance to venue if you enjoy a 3 mile hike). Cheapest is to buy your ticket to STAFFORD. You can connect to STONE via an 8 minute local train.

Booking is available via this page and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Google forms booking link for April ’23 is here https://forms.gle/rMbHEhVzibYmBkbQA

In 2015, Geoff Monk (Nottingham Improv Comedy Experience (NICE)/MissImp) had an idea to go to Edale YHA for a weekend of improv, where participants from groups across the Midlands would draw on each other’s experience and lead workshops. Hoping that about 20 might go, 32 showed up that November! It was so popular that this quickly led to the idea that the event would be repeated twice a year in various Midlands locations. Tom Young (The Same Faces) volunteered to co-host the events and in the Spring of 2016 we went to Hothorpe Hall with over 50 improvisers! Two more events followed at the Hallmark Hotel Stourport Manor and Yarnfield Park in Staffordshire.

“UK Improv Weekends and Events” became a temporary name, then as of May 2017 the organisation was re-branded as “The British Improv Project” as our participant base are not just from the Midlands, but from all over the UK, Germany, and the USA. 

November 2019 marked our 10th event, now at Stoke Rochford Hall, near Grantham where nearly 80 attended. That was due to continue in April & November of 2020, but Covid19 cancelled both. We resumed in November 2021 at Yarnfield Park which is currently our ‘regular’ venue with events held in April of 2022 and planned for November 2022.

Looking to the future we hope to add a longer summer event in a UK holiday destination which will combine improv with other leisure and social activities.

Geoff Monk & Tom Young are the joint organisers of The BIP, and continue to provide affordable, top quality improv training, outside of London.

You can get in touch with us via the form below or via our facebook page.