24 HOUR NON-STOP IMPROTHON

Watch the fundraising Improthon here:

http://www.ridinglights.org/sub_sites/stl/video.html

24 hours of non-stop improvising from 5pm Friday 11th - 5pm Saturday 12th September

Pledge your sponsorship here:

www.justgiving.com/riding-lights

FUNDRAISING UPDATE!!

Here we are in the week leading up to our big Fundraising Weekend and there's already news to report! Members of Riding Lights Theatre took part in a sponsored bike ride last Saturday raising over £1,000 towards The Sky's The Limit.




You can read a bit more about this and even see a video by clicking HERE

You can also see read about some other activities happening as part of The Sky's the Limit next weekend and it's certainly not too late to add your sponsorship by clicking HERE

Non-stop Theatre!

The Sky's the Limit - Fundraising Update

Buy Rob Gooch a parachute! Our stage manager Rob is going to be jumping out of an aeroplane on Saturday 12th September. As yet, he can’t afford to buy a parachute. Help him out by donating to his parachute fund HERE. He’d much prefer it if he had one come September, so be generous.


Snowy and Desmond perform at the top of mountains with Paul Burbridge and Kelvin Goodspeed. Long standing Riding Lights performers Snowy and Desmond will be reaching new heights with old sketches. Being quite small, this will be hard work for our favourite puppets, so make sure you encourage them by sponsoring generously HERE.


Riding Lights Youth Theatre fancy dress sponsored bike ride! Sally Maddison will be leading her adventurous Youth Theatre dressed in silly clothes 27 miles on the Tissington Trail in Ashbourne. She admits she’s never been able to finish this track herself, having tried it three times, so we’re hoping RLYT will help Sally to beat her record of ‘half way round’. You can sponsor the Youth Theatre HERE.

RIDING LIGHTS - Actors wanted for Roughshod 2010

The Sky's the Limit - Riding Lights aims high with September fundraising weekend

We are teaming up with JumpMAD (www.jumpMAD.co.uk) to help raise £50,000 towards the work of Riding Lights.

We are offering ANYONE the opportunity to show how much they love Riding Lights by jumping out of an aeroplane! All you have to do is raise at least £375 worth of sponsorship with all funds going to Riding Lights and JumpMAD will then make all the necessary arrangements and the costs of you making the jump will be covered.

We want to go for a REALLY BIG JUMP with lots of people jumping for Riding Lights at the same time. The jump will be the weekend of the 12th and 13th September and there will be simultaneous jumps from four locations in the UK (Hibaldstow, Oxford, Nottingham and March).

Our aim is to get 150 people jumping for Riding Lights in September, each raising sponsorship of around £600. Once the costs of the exhilarating experience of you jumping out of an aeroplane at about 12,000ft have been covered, that would mean that Riding Lights would have about £50,000 of much-needed funds to help stage productions in the next couple of years.

And if skydiving doesn’t appeal, there are plenty of other ways to help raise money for your favourite theatre company. If you think you could do something sponsored or hold a fundraising event, call Susie at the office on 01904 655317, or email theskysthelimit@rltc.org for more information. In addition to this, Riding Lights will be holding our own fundraising events. Watch this space for more info!

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168 party!

Back from the 168 Film Project awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard returned to York to join the cast, crew and those who had helped in the making of Unscripted to watch the film at the City Screen cinema. The invited audience watched Unscripted followed by Colin Pringle and Fionn Watts' award winning behind the scenes film about the making of Unscripted. The large screen environment was perfect, creating the right atmosphere of excitement and anticipation. Afterwards the guests returned to Riding Lights' Friargate theatre where Luke and Jackie presented the awards received. The winners accepted their awards with off the cuff speeches mixed with the usual with humour and grace.