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PROJECTS

2007 - 2008 Programme

Thanks again to funding from Lambeth Endowed Charities, and some previous funds from Ernest Cook Trust, we were able to reconstitute our previous Workshops as an integrated Climate Change Action Programme for primary schools.



We were able to combine the funding received from Awards for All, which supported the Shows as part of our contribution to the Urban Green Fair in Brockwell Park on 9 September 2007, the funding received from Lambeth Endowed Charities for presenting the Programme in Lambeth schools and that from The Body Shop Foundation for presenting the Programme in Southwark schools. By this means, the rehearsals carried out initially for the Fair also served the Lambeth and Southwark school programmes, thereby extending the effectiveness of the LEC and BSF funding. Our same team of actors as in the 2005 programme rehearsed and presented the Show for all three commissions.

The latest Lambeth programme covered five schools in addition to those funded by LEC in 2005. Four classes of nominally 30 pupils each per school were included, giving a total of 120 pupils per school, except for one school, where six classes were included, totalling 180 pupils. The complete programme thus reached potentially 660 pupils. Funding from BSF for the programme in Southwark was confirmed while the one in Lambeth was in progress, and had to be put into action at short notice while the acting team was still available. Fortunately the two programmes could be dovetailed together, enabling a further five schools in Southwark to be included, reaching a potential 1116 pupils in a larger number of classes than in Lambeth. The combined programme in both Boroughs thus reached potentially 1776 pupils.



The combined funding from Awards for All, Lambeth Endowed Charities and The Bodyshop Foundation for education on climate change amounted to œ6,583 including œ650 contributed to the costs by the schools. This approximates to œ3.71 per pupil. If members of the public seeing the Shows at the Urban Green Fair are also included, estimated at 150, the overall cost per participant reduces to œ3.42. We consider this programme pretty good value for money!



Related Project Work in Schools

Gloucester School, Southwark



Display boards around the school

Charles Dickens School, Southwark



Follow-on class project, and street side hoarding


Sketches by Pam Williams
















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