CALLING ALL TROOPS! - Help JP get through RBC
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HI! My name is Jean-Paul Mark Shlom (aka JP) I'm a 20-year-old Jewish/Latinx Actor currently studying the first year of my BA in acting at Rose Burford College! (yay!) However, Student Finance England (SFE) won't pay for my first year of study... (boo!)
Here's what's happened. So two years ago I studied for my CertHE in acting at Italia Conti (back when it was in Clapham) and being one of the few places that accepted SFE I was able to go that year. The year after Conti, I went to the University of West London (UWL), in which I was sold that I would be doing a full-time vocational course doing a BA in Acting). This was not the case. I instead was met with a course that only 9 hours a week (about 1.5 hours a day in the span of three days); a far away mark from the required 21 hours that the government demands from a full-time course. Having nowhere else to go, I finished my year, and in that span, I got into Rose Bruford.
About a week before I started at Bruford, I received an Email explaining that SFE would not be paying for my first year at Rose Bruford (due to needing to repeat my year of studying the Acting BA).
Here is where I call for your help! I am only part of the way to being able to pay for it (pulling some strings and using up my savings). However, I am still short on the £9,250 that I need to pay to go to uni. So if you can, you can pledge some money to yours truly and help a little Latin boy get through this year (although I'm not really little, I'm like 5'11/6'), it would be greatly appreciated.
In case you are not convinced by the context of this situation, here are a few more things about me:
- I have been pursuing acting since I was a child, I left Venezuela 9 years ago knowing well that I wanted to act, and I have been in that pursuit ever since. A struggle, but a fight I'm willing to continue for my dreams.
- I have also been writing for the past 5 years a number of exciting and fresh plays and tv screenplays, a brand new and honest musical, and a unique poetry collection that I should be able to publish thanks to your help (might send you a copy while I'm at it at discount)!
- Along with writing, I have directed projects of my own and am currently working on curating a brand new show in its early stages.
So, yeah! that's what I do, what's happened to me, and what you could be backing! So if you do decide to back me, I will be eternally thankful (plus any awards that I win/achievements that I gain, will be thanks to you!).
LET'S GET ME THROUGH FIRST YEAR Y'ALL!!!
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Jean-Paul Shlom
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