parents
The MTA family is incredible. We know you are!
This is how you can help…
The Montage Family
Every time you buy a cake at a cake sale, donate old dance wear, throw some change into one of our collection buckets or buy a ticket to a show you’re helping to support us!
Our parents are some of the most kind and supportive people we know, and sometimes a parent goes above and beyond…
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We are uniquely placed. Founded in 1998, we’ve been supporting the children of Lewisham for nearly 20 years. Our teachers are experts in their fields including many West End professionals from shows such as Billy Elliot, Stomp, Bat Out of Hell and Les Miserables.
MTA provides 30 classes weekly (3 terms of 11 weeks) 33 weeks p.a.
MTA runs a huge bursary and concession programme (over 416 places per year), subsiding our rates to grant access to the arts for all!
MTA recruits, trains, organises and manages up to 30 volunteers
MTA recruits, inducts, organises and manages 10 teachers/facilitators
MTA provides Holiday Programmes, Youth Theatre Company and is a National Theatre Connections Learning Partner
MTA runs workshops and programmes for Over 60’s in Sheltered Housing schemes and in the wider local community.
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We know. You hear the word ‘committee’ and you run screaming for the hills.
BUT DON’T GO JUST YET!
The MTA parent committee is not a major commitment, nor is it a time-consuming activity. We understand how valuable your time is! Most parents don’t attend the ‘official’ meetings and help out as and when they can.
In the past this amazing group of pro-active parents have helped plan fundraisers, baked cakes for the cake sale, delivered flyers, helped chaperone events, and sourced equipment, props and costumes for shows.
If you can help in anyway and would like to get involved, please get in touch with Richard, our Youth Programme Manager, ypm@montagetheatre.com
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By taking part in our on-site activities during lessons, you are providing valuable support for our charitable work.
We know bucket rattling is tiring; cake sales, raffles, ‘parents join in week’ are just some of the ways in which you are helping support some of the borough’s most vulnerable.
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Donations are always gratefully received; MTA parents have even gone as far as to run 26.2 miles in the London Marathon to help us fundraise!
Sometimes we will ask for help getting the message out about a fundraising campaign. If all of our parents forwarded an email to 5 of their contacts we could reach over 10,000 people!
Donations are far from being exclusively financial. Parents have offered to help with transportation of set/costumes, write funding bids, source equipment, and even given us old office equipment!
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- Creative skills for all – including enhanced communication, cognitive and motor skills
- Improved educational performance
- Lifelong skills
- Better employment prospects
- Higher confidence and self-esteem
- Public speaking and presentation skills
- Making friends from all walks of life – interaction of children from all social and economic backgrounds is shown to both boost educational performance and increase understanding.
- A safe environment off the streets
Amy’s Story…
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[/col_inner_1] [col_inner_1 span=”8″ span__sm=”12″ padding=”20px 0px 0px 0px” align=”left”]Amy* is 15 and has been with Montage for four years. Not only does she love to dance, she’s incredibly talented. Dance is her lifeline.
Her younger brother is severely autistic, needing most of the attention her mother can spare. Amy herself has Sickle Cell Anaemia and has to have full blood transfusions four times a year.
In 2012 she took part in the U.Dance finals at the Southbank Centre. She’d had a full transfusion the day before but was so determined to dance that she didn’t tell anyone – that is the level of her commitment. MTA went on to win the event.
Without the £220 per term to fund her place, Amy, and many like her, will have to leave.
Jason’s Story…
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[/col_inner_1] [col_inner_1 span=”8″ span__sm=”12″ padding=”60px 0px 0px 0px” align=”left”]Jason* is 17 years old and started with Montage at the age of 3. The family have always struggled financially. His mother has mental health issues and his father died when Jason was young.
When he was 8, his new stepfather banned him from doing anything creative and stopped him coming to Montage. When the stepfather left the family a year later, Jason returned and started to thrive.
So much so he won a place at the Brit School and yet still comes to us on Saturdays to train, volunteers with our holiday programmes to help the younger children, and fundraises for us.
Use the safe and secure Paypal option, just click on the Paypal button and enter the amount you wish to donate
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online to our bank
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Sort Code: 08-92-99
A/C No: 65134995
A/C Name: Montage Theatre Arts
Reference: Donation