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Hi everyone, my name is Spencer and I am rasing funds for Break-For-Life to deliver youth engagement activities to young people, who for several reasons are often usually excluded. The cohort will include looked after children, unaccompanied asylum seeking children (they’re amazing by the way, so motivated!) and young people who are involved with the criminal justice system.

We work with the best and most experienced artists and the funding raised pays for all the associated costs (e.g. artists fees and hall hire) so the access can be given to the young people free of charge. Break-For-Life (est. 1995) will deliver weekly workshops in the Hip Hop dance form Breaking, and over the course of a school year will also include workshops in DJ-ing, rapping, beatbox and spray-can art. The difficulty of such skills, and the values of the culture, creates a learning environment that continues outside the studio, and the improvements in confidence and self-worth has a positive impact on all other areas of their lives. For the young people targeted, the significance of this chance cannot be over stated.

The main project is based in the Hampshire area, and Break-For-Life also deliver workshops in other towns across England. The young people will also have the opportunity to travel within the UK to compete and perform.

 The funding target covers one year of lessons, broken down as £1440 rent, £3760 artists fees (approx 126 hours) and the remaining £800 on insurances, supplies for visual art projects and marketing. Once the first quarter is funded the project will begin, and some individual events have started to happen, already, for example in August we hosted a 4-hour DJ and writing workshop for 13 Care leavers aged 16-20.

On behalf of myself and the young people I’d like to sincerely thank you for contributing to a project whose benefits undoubtedly reach beyond those who are directly involved in it.
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Spencer Suspence Whatmore
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