CRICKETING TRIO BRAVE SLEEP OUT FOR ROUNDABOUT

Cricketing friends Adam White, Jamie Fellows and Ed Kinsey will need more than just their sporting whites as they brave the chill of a March night for a sleep-out in support of South Yorkshire youth homelessness charity Roundabout.

The sporting trio are all members of Clowne Town Cricket Club and they have chosen the club as the location for their March 24 night under the stars, which they hope could raise as much as £1,000.

“We have been looking at things like the cost of living crisis and how much everybody is struggling at the moment,” explained Adam. “We know that this can affect anybody but we thought about the young people who might not necessarily have as many choices as other people and how the strain on families and finances really could leave them very vulnerable to becoming homeless.

“We heard about the work that Roundabout is doing with young people in South Yorkshire and

HOW TO KEEP THE PASSION IN ALL YOU DO!

across the region so we decided we would try to do something to help.”

The friends will begin their sleep out between seven and eight in the evening and will go through to the following morning with just a sleeping bag and pillow each, a piece of cardboard to rest on and three flasks of soup to share as the cold begins to bite.

“We’ve set ourselves a target of £200 each but we’ve already reached £467 so we’re now hoping that we might be able to raise as much as £1,000, which would be a great result for Roundabout,” said Adam.

“We know that what we are doing is nothing like as dangerous or as frightening as being on the streets must be for a young person but we do want to make our night as realistic as we possibly can so we can get across to people how important it is that they should support charities like Roundabout.”

To support Adam, Ed and Jamie visit justgiving. com/fundraising/ clownesleepout

In February we had Valentine’s Day – a time to express love and adoration for the special person in our lives. How much do you love what you do though? How much do you love your beneficiaries? How much do you love how you deliver the services that you do? We can’t always love every minute of every day of our working lives, but working in the charitable/non-profit sector usually does involve people with more passion for what they do.

How do you keep that passion going? It is like any good relationship, it needs work and it needs your attention every day so that you don’t get bored, you don’t get frustrated and you are able to sustain that level of energy and need to be involved.

Fall in love with your organisation again. Why did you start it? What do you get out of what you do? How do your volunteers, staff and beneficiaries inspire you to do more?

Who can help you with the bits that you don’t like doing so you don’t get bored, frustrated or fall out of love with your organisation?

Perhaps you could consider therapy? Having someone look from an external point of view to give you some pointers?

Perhaps you might want to go on a date night with your organisation? Shut yourself away for a full working day and work on your business, not in it. You could revisit your business plan, your funding strategy and your operations to review what can be done to breathe new life into what you are doing.

Keep the home fires burning for your organisation, just like you do for your life partner and you won’t go far wrong. Enjoy what you do, love what you do and it will love you back and more!

For any help and guidance, contact me soon.

Wendy Ward, Let’s Save Consultancy Services, 0772 9481010. wendy@letssave. biz.

Getting A Good Team Around You Is Vital

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As a director, a large amount of my work is done before I get in the rehearsal room. Obviously, that relates to the actors I cast, but it also includes the team around me: the set and costume designer, sound designer, lighting designer, production manager – it can be a big group of people! So, it’s important to assemble the right team that you can get on with, work well with and have a shared creative language with. If I assemble the right team, my job becomes pretty easy!

IT’S A GREAT WAY TO TRAVEL

than the amount being offered. I learned that people go in low and negotiate up. When you’re working on a show it can be an all-consuming life – we often do 12 or 14-hour days – so it’s important to properly value your time and break down what that’s worth. It might be your passion and you might love it, but you still have to pay rent and buy food.