Fundraising with Greenside Primary School

We have been honoured and beyond lucky to receive the immense support and creative genius of the pupils and staff of Greenside Primary School since 2017. In six years they’ve raised over £30,000!

It was the pupils and staff at Greenside who first raised funds for four exceptional performers who had recently claimed asylum in the U.K. to join the very first company of The Jungle at the Young Vic in 2017. We had met these artists in the Jungle in Calais, and knew we couldn’t tell the story without them. Greenside made that possible.

From then, they’ve had cake sales and non uniform days and sold tickets in aid of Good Chance to whole school shows and their yearly Green Day Festival, a celebration of music, poetry and dance.

But their fundraising innovations have never ceased to amaze us, our favourite being a whole school collective poem - pupils paid £1 to enter a line and our brilliant Head of Poetry, Emily, crafted it into an inspiring, silly and hopeful poem, The Freedom to be Heard by Greenside.

But more important to us than any of this is the creative involvement of the pupils and staff over these six years. They have made music videos on the stage of The Jungle in the West End, met the 3.5m puppet Little Amal on her first ever outing at Glastonbury Festival 2021, sang to her from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral during The Walk, made and flown Afghan kites for Fly With Me in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan in 2022, and sung and danced their hearts out at some of the most magical events we’ve had the pleasure of attending.

We are truly humbled by your support and dedication to the work of the company, and endlessly astounded by the fundraising innovations and creative genius! 

From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! 

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