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We are delighted to announce that our Youth Engagement Officer and Choreographer Dan Carr has been awarded the Jack Petchey Leader Award at KYDS. The Jack Petchey Leader Award is a way of recognising leaders that motivate, inspire and encourage young people.

Dan was chosen to receive the Leader Award for 2016 by a vote of all of our youth members. Some of the comments submitted about Dan are below:

He’s always encouraging everyone and understands all of the members.

He puts a lot of time, effort and patience into choreographing the dances for the shows in his spare time.

He is always really helpful and takes time to go through things with us if we don’t understand what we are doing. He makes things fun. 

Congratulations Dan and thank you for all of your hard work at KYDS.

If you think you have what it takes to encourage, inspire and motivate young people, why not consider joining us as a volunteer?

Marcus Churchill, a founding member and current Trustee of KYDS, is due to play a major role in an upcoming feature film, Wuthering Heights.

Marcus will play Hindley Earnshaw, the tyrannical brother of Catherine.

After hundreds of audition tapes were received by the producers, we are exceptionally proud of Marcus for this fantastic achievement and wish him the best of luck with filming, which will take place in Shropshire.

The film is due to premiere in December 2016.

Follow @wutheringfilm or visit www.wuthering-heights.com for further information.

Olly Smith has been awarded the President’s Award for the Highest Achiever by Ray Banks, President of KYDS.

Ray told us why he decided to give Olly the award from the Society’s recent production of Cinderella:

“Every production that KYDS puts on, I always watch for the person who, in my considered opinion, has achieved the highest standard of progress during the rehearsal run. 

Sometimes it is quite easy to see who is achieving most. At other times it is a much harder task, with several making a huge effort to achieve high standards. Such was the case during our latest production of Cinderella.

Eventually Olly Smith shone through, with good performances of several different characters. Olly was a worthy winner of the President’s Highest Achiever Award.”

Congratulations Olly on this fantastic achievement!

We would like to congratulate our first ever Jack Petchey Achievement Award winner, Lucy Greed! Lucy was nominated by members of the cast of Cinderella to receive the award after she rose to the challenge of playing the title role in the show. Youth members explained that Lucy had overcome big challenges during rehearsals for the show and had stepped out of her comfort zone. At the same time, Lucy continued to act as a role model and supported younger members of the cast. Some of the comments submitted by members of the cast are below:

Lucy Greed with Dannii Carr, Youth Liaison Officer (L) and James Stocker, Trustee and Jack Petchey Coordinator (R)

[I nominate Lucy] “Because she has shown such progress from the beginning of this show and to see her overcome her fear of singing in public needs great recognition. I’m so proud of her.”

“I would like to nominate Lucy mostly because of what she has become over the past few weeks. She’s put so much effort into being Cinderella this term that I think she deserves it. I also nominate her for how much she cares for everyone at Kyds as she’s certainly made me feel welcome!“

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James Stocker, one of our Trustees, chatted with Tony Fisher today on BBC Essex about KYDS and our forthcoming production Cinderella!

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