Kids4Arts founder, Sheila Gosling, is an experienced Drama/Art Group Leader, and has worked in the field for fourteen years.

Sheila has always taken an interest in the performing arts, having taken part in and later directed a number of productions while at High School back in Michigan.

Since moving to England, she has continuously worked with children and adults of all ages and abilities, helping them with their personal development through drama and the arts, including eight years working for Mencap, running the Cool Cats group for children with Downs at the Meadows Community Centre, in Arbury.

Other work includes:

• Alternative Program, Cottenham Village College
• Inspire, Highfields School, Ely
• Cambridge Community Trust
• Castle School, Cambridge
  
• Integr8, Viva Youth Theatre
• Speaking Up! Next Step Program
• Libra Theatre Company
• Headway, Cambridge
  
• SCOPE, Meldreth Manor School
• Fulbourn Day Centre, Mitchell Day Centre
  
• STRADA Rehab Centre, Cottenham
  

Sheila studied English Literature at the University of Chicago, and has a PgD in Drama Therapy from the University of Hertfordshire.