Why should you donate to Scene & Heard?

We thought we'd share with you a couple of emails we've had in the office in the last two days.





This is from a parent of two of the children we work with.

"Our oldest son has done really well over the last year. He passed his Maths GCSE with an ‘A’  grade this summer at the end of Year 8 and was student of the year from 200 pupils. He is also captain of his successful local football team.  His brother has also done well in his studies and has won various awards. Their progress is in no small part down to their time at Scene & Heard. Where they grew up as individuals outside the school environment. They developed a personality and an enthusiasm for getting on with things that we are all very appreciative of."

And this is from the Headteacher at Edith Neville Primary School, Somers Town

"Bravo, bravo!

The Plays last night were wonderful, truly wonderful.
Congratulations to all of the Scene and Heard team, volunteers, theatre professionals and, of course, the children (and the families who support them). Just by setting such amazing standards term by term does not make the challenges nor successes fewer; you amaze me with what you achieve.
Keep up the fine work."

Scene & Heard are one of the charities participating in The Big Give - from December 5th - 9th 2011 any donation made will be DOUBLED at no cost to the donor - to make a donation to Scene & Heard during the Big Give click here

How to Blow Your Trumpet for Scene & Heard

To reach our goal a lot of people will have to donate on-line during the Challenge, Monday 5 December-Friday 9 December.  More people than we can access just from our little office!

So we need your help to contact as many people as you can to promise to donate.  Experience tells us that the personal approach is the best way to get people to give to a campaign like this. We want them to make a promise so that we can remind them during the donation week.

What You Can Do:

• Write an email to everyone you know – or feel you can approach – and ask them directly to participate in the Challenge
• Follow us on Twitter and retweet our Big Give tweets leading up to the on-line donation week
• Like us on Facebook and share our Big Give posts with all of your friends, adding your own comments and appeals as you go.
• Ask your colleagues and family members to ask their friends and colleagues to participate.
• If you blog, consider plugging the Christmas Challenge, and Scene & Heard in your writing – or at least link to us in your blog.

We'll post some email templates for you to use as a starting point in the next few days.

What Are You Asking People to Do?

The Big Give Christmas Challenge is quite complicated – we would prefer that anyone who would like to donate to us during the Big Give week sends us a “promise” email to thebiggive@sceneandheard.org in advance, or sign up using this Make a Promise page . The minimum donation is £5.

We will then send them a reminder before the week starts, with instructions and a link to the website to donate (it will not be live before December 5th).

Useful Links to send people to

Scene & Heard’s Big Give blog with FAQs (this blog!)

Scene & Heard Make A Promise sign up page 

Scene & Heard on Facebook

Scene & Heard on Twitter

Scene & Heard on Google +

Scene & Heard on You Tube

Scene & Heard’s website

If you need any help, or have any other questions, please email Simma in the S&H Office.

Scene & Heard are one of the charities participating in The Big Give - from December 5th - 9th 2011 any donation made will be DOUBLED at no cost to the donor - to make a donation to Scene & Heard during the Big Give click here