Donate to the YPPT
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If you like what we do, please donate to support us! Many schools that would like to host YPPT projects are currently facing huge budget cuts that have decimated their ability to support important creative and life skills projects like the ones we offer, and children are missing out on these opportunities as a result. Any support you can give will go directly towards one of our projects. We will credit all of our sponsors on our website later in the year as well as sending you regular project updates from your sponsored project.
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If you would like to give a different amount, you are of course welcome to do so on our MyDonate page!
The materials needed to create one of our complex jointed nine-string marionette include a head base, two different types of clay, acrylic paint, a selection of wools and fabrics, haberdashery, thread (sewing thread and stringing thread) as well as custom-made boxes, puppet parts and hardware. At the end of our projects, each child takes home the puppet that they have made and we have heard from past participants that they are treasured for years! £20 covers all the costs of a puppet on one of our projects.
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Having made their puppets, the children work in small groups to produce stunning sets for their performances, including designing and painting backdrops and making furniture and other props. The materials required include specially-built backdrop canvases, paint, custom-made parts for props, and a selection of fabric, clays and paints for the children to built and decorate everything that the show requires. The results are spectacular - many of our sets elicit gasps from the audiences when the curtain goes up! £50 covers all the materials needed to build one of these amazing sets.
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All of our shows take place on one of our purpose-built high-tech stages, designed and built by internationally-renowned stagebuilders Brilliant Stages, who also build for the likes of Lady Gaga and Adele. We then fit these stages out with industry-standard LED lighting that is safe for the children to use, and which shows off their work in the best possible way. The children also learn the international standard lighting programming language DMX to set and program their own lighting designs for the shows. Each of the lights costs just under £100, and is used by thousands of children over the light's lifetime - this is truly an investment in the future of the YPPT!
We are always looking out for new scripts to add to our growing library. Currently we have a wide range of scripts from Shakespeare to fairy tales from around the world so that each class can work with and perform a script that suits them and exposes them to new ideas. We work with a variety of authors and playwrights who create and adapt stories to our project format. Given the work involved in this, we pay them a royalty when their script is used by a school; £250 covers the costs of using a script in one of our projects. We assign our script donations to a particular project and credit the sponsor in print on the scripts used.
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