The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024
Thank you to everyone who supported us through the Big Give Christmas Challenge in December 2024.
Your efforts help RADA deliver world-leading training to the most talented young people; the dreamers and makers of tomorrow who will captivate audiences and shape future stories and how they are told.
Money raised at this year's Big Give Christmas Challenge will help to raise money to help us continue to invest in our training and facilities.
RADA aims to inspire boldness, celebrate risk and enable shared purpose to develop the next generation of game-changers and leaders.
Your support is vital and will equip and prepare our students to enter the sector as industry-ready as possible, make a lasting impact and become creative leaders who will drive social mobility within our society.
Together, you will help with the much-needed investment into our training, equipment and facilities and support a more representative and valued future for the Creative Industries.
What’s the Big Give Christmas Challenge?
It's the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign, that connects charitable trusts with participating charities. For seven days, it offers individual supporters of participating charities the opportunity to have their donation doubled on theBigGive.org.uk.
Why are we raising money for training and facilities?
Our world-leading training is highly specialised and expensive to deliver. There are essential improvements needed in our training space, and we urgently need investment so that our teaching can remain at the highest standards.
And this could threaten our ability to train and inspire future generations, so they can fully realise their potential and drive change in the industry.
When you support us with these urgent improvements you are helping us train and inspire future generations, so they can fully realise their potential and drive change in the industry.
Only donations made via the Big Give Platform between 3 - 10 December 2024 will be matched, so please make your pledge now, mark these dates in your diary, and keep an eye on this page for further updates in coming weeks!
About your support
- £1,000 could fund a band saw for Technical Theatre Arts students
- £490 could fund the creation of a Period Costume by a PgDip Theatre Costume student
- £150 could buy 10 play scripts for use by BA in Acting students
- £45 could provide a counselling session for a student in need
We are aiming to raise £80,000 during the Big Give week. And thanks to our match funders, all donations will have double the impact, allowing RADA to nurture the creativity of students and continue to uphold the excellence of their training.
Our generous match funders: Lucy & Zac Barratt, Aidan Clegg, Alan & Ros Haigh, Richard Lissack, Maxine Peake, John Romeo, Caroline Spicer and the Big Give Trust.
