Madam Mayor of Oldham has donated £500 to Wild Things Performing Arts CIC to help us get through this period of financial difficulty, during the Coronavirus pandemic. Madam Mayor and Oldham’s Youth Mayor attended our annual Oscars ceremony last year, where they presented our students with awards celebrating their individuality and achievements. We are extremely …
Natwest offers match funding
Wild Things has received £2,500 in match funding from NatWest’s “Back Her Business” scheme – designed to champion women in business – after they won match funding for their recent crowdfunder campaign. The new ‘not-for-profit’ organisation with strong community values, aiming to make the performing arts inclusive and accessible to all, was set up in June …
Students start their own fund raisers to help save their Performing Arts School
We have had our Crowdfunding campaign extended for 2 weeks – and we’re really hoping to raise as much money as we possibly can in this time to ensure the short-term future of our wonderful Performing Arts organisation. This will buy us time to apply for grant-funding to allow us to have more of an …
Four Wild Things students star in new music video
Four of our brilliant students were recently cast in a new music video, directed by award-winning filmmaker Lee D Barnes and produced by North Park pictures. The video sees a young girl being bullied at school, but staying calm and composed about it, whilst the bullies get increasingly agitated – and in the end all …
The Wild Things Crowdfunder is live!
Wild Things has suffered a huge financial crisis as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. The organisation has never been run to make a profit, and as a result, we live very much month-to-month, earning just enough to cover the cost of running our activities, with no financial assistance. The lockdown, which happened in March …
Wild Things becomes a CIC
Wild Things has been around since 2008. We began life as an after-school club run by actress and Mum of two, Nancy, at Buckstones School in Shaw, Oldham. Nancy wanted to set up something that her own children could be involved in that would be purely for them and others to enjoy, express themselves and …