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I am a young aspiring actor called Adam Pergande and during the last 6 years, I have worked with 3 amateur groups; Spotlight Productions, Whizz Kids and the Huntingdon Youth Theatre. I have taken part in 12 amateur theatre productions and 6 plays/shows at school and college and this experience proved invaluable with my Drama School auditions this year. I am thrilled to have been offered a place at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, one of the UK’s leading drama schools. ALRA is one of just 18 schools accredited by the National Council for Drama Training and competition for places on their courses is fierce. It is estimated that each of the accredited schools receives between 3000 – 5000 applicants every year and on average they only accept around 35. ALRA has just 24 students starting in September 2007 and if I can raise enough money, I will be one of them.

Unfortunately, I don’t qualify for the student loan scheme or for a DaDa (Dance & Drama award), which means I’m going to have to fund the course myself. This amounts to £11400.00 per year in fees, plus estimated living expenses in London of £8000.00 per year!

Raising this much money is a daunting prospect, but I plan to work hard teaching piano and earn money by performing as a keyboardist wherever I can and my parents will support me financially as much as possible with my living expenses. However this will still leave me with a significant shortfall and nothing like enough to pay my fees.

So I have set up a number of fund raising activities including producing a CD of my music to sell, and developing the Adam 4 ALRA Patrons Scheme.

I decided that, rather than ask a few people for a lot of money, it would be much better to find lot’s of people who would be prepared to sponsor me for a very small amount over the next 3 years. For example 2400 people donating just £5.00 a year would cover my fees and I’m hoping that I can persuade enough people to support me and help me fulfil my dream.

So I would be exceptionally grateful if you would visit my web site where you can find more information about me and details of how to become a patron. I have also produced a leaflet explaining everything, which can be viewed and printed from the web site or I can provide a printed copy on request.

Lastly, the success of my patrons scheme depends on reaching as many people as possible and so it would be fantastic if you could pass this information along to anyone else you think may be prepared to help support me and then if they forward it to their contacts as well, I have a good chance of gaining support from the number of people I need.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Adam