The Community Outreach programme encourages contribution and participation in cultural activities in order to positively impact on social exclusion, poverty, ill health and disadvantage. Cheltenham Festivals recognises the importance of making the arts accessible to people who struggle to engage. The first two phases have been embraced in a large neighbourhood in West Cheltenham where a concentration of relative poverty sets it aside from the rest of Cheltenham. The final phase, a community opera called A Likely Story, will begin in Spring 2018.