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Our runners ran a great race this year and the total they have raised so far is £2027.50!
Their fundraising sponsorship pages are still open if you would like to sponsor them and add to the amazing total already achieved – every penny they raise will help us do more of what we do at TheatreMAD – The Make A Difference Trust

Race day  was  on 14.10.2018 

ALEX PATSALIDES – Click to sponsor Alex

 

RYAN WALKLETT – Click to sponsor Ryan

 

MICHAEL YATES – Click to sponsor Michael

 

Here’s More about the Race and Royal Parks Foundation:

In 2008 Royal Parks created a spectacular Half Marathon in central London – the first and only one of its kind. The stunning 13.1 mile route takes in the capital’s world-famous landmarks on closed roads, and four of London’s eight Royal Parks – Hyde Park, The Green Park, St James’s Park and Kensington Gardens.

Royal Parks, like all of our runners, want to see the best of London’s city and parks, so our fantastic event goes beyond just running 13.1 miles, as we design the day so that spectators have as much fun as the runners themselves.

Take a look at RPH’s photos of the race through the years

Watch RPH’s 2016 video – experience race day for yourself!

Find out more about past winners

Be the first to hear important race news through our newsletter!

Come and join the fun at TheatreMAD and support us!

Join us in taking time to Reflect, Remember & Celebrate

WITH THE CHOIR OF ST PAUL’S CHURCH

WORLD AIDS DAY REQUIEM

St Paul’s (The Actors’) Church

FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER at 1pm

Please note: This will be a Christian Requiem Mass

but people of all faiths and none are very welcome to attend.

There will be opportunities for silence, for reflection and to

light candles in remembrance.

 

Admission free

You can still sponsor a runner or team – the donation pages remain open until the end of the year – Click on the Team or Individual Runner’s name to go to their sponsorship page:

Jade Davies

Jeremy Ellis

Michael Patsalides

Alexander Patsalides

Team Traf

Team Traf members from Trafalgar Studios all running for Theatre MAD are:
Charlotte Horsepool
Nicki Webb
Petra Hlubuckova
Xelo Rico
Christina Horsepool
Francesca Paloschi
Bryony Joyce
Poppy Templeton
Rebecca Jones
Eloise Lally
Will Pattle
Marie Vivent
Martin Scorer
Bryony Joyce
Naomi Ralph
Conor Burke
Samantha Horsepool

Back to RED Run page

Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon Hyde Park – Sunday 8th October 2017

David McMullan has completed his run for The Make a Difference Trust in this year’s Royal Parks Half, and he still needs more sponsorship to reach the herculean target he has set himself!

Well done Dave. THANK YOU DAVE! 

He is trying to match the sum raised last year by four runners – so his hopes are set very high with a fundraising target of £3,200 of which he has so far raised £1,090.00

Please go to his Virgin Money Giving fundraising site to help him smash the target!  David McMullan – sponsorship page

A West End Christmas 2017

Since 2003, The Make A Difference Trust has been restoring the spirit of Christmas, with the cast and stars of West End shows coming together to be a part of A West End Christmas.

A West End Christmas is our annual celebration of the festive season with a magical mix of music and verse with the stars and casts of London’s West End Theatre.

We know you’ve been waiting patiently for the tickets to go on sale, and they are available NOW. Can’t wait to see you there!

Here’s the video and you can scroll through all the photos and a review from ARTSCENE in the gallery below:

A wonderful group of people from Trafalgar Studios, Her Majesty’s Theatre the West End and friends and family of  TheatreMAD Raised £1437.50 (and still counting) for us on the RED RUN.  Our star runner was Jade Davies, from the Phantom of the Opera cast, who raised more than any other individual runner! 1400 runners supported the 2017 race; all of them running to raise funds for HIV and AIDS charities – THANK YOU ALL! 🙂  www.redrun.org.uk 

TheatreMAD – The Make A Difference Trust is one of 22 charities signed up for this amazing new race being promoted by Positive East.  We aim to get a large group of runners and groups of runners to join us for this fun run, raising money for this fantastic cause. Please get in touch if you’d like to run or if you want to get a group together for the run.  If you are running in a group, the group can have its own fundraising page for all the members of the group to promote for sponsorship donations.

The annual World AIDS Day Red Run is a 10k/5k chipped timed charity fun run through east London’s Victoria Park to raise awareness of, and vital funds for, essential HIV services across the UK. Positive East have 22 charities signed on which is great. Positive East is really keen to create special event that brings together, and benefits, all involved in the fight against HIV.

The Make A Difference Trust

TheatreMAD: Fighting HIV & AIDS One Stage At A Time
t.    +44 (0) 207 231 9719
e.    office@madtrust.org.uk 
a.    Unit 7, City Business Centre, Lower Road, London. SE16 2XB

 

 

 

 

 

A MAD Drag Night 2017

A MAD Drag Night had an amazing 2 shows in 2017 and the money raised is shown below – everyone there will never forget the fun we all had! A HUGE MAD thank you to EVERYONE who gave their time and work to make this incredible show happen and to the fantastic audiences who supported us!

A MAD Drag Night has fast become the West End Community’s most celebrated night of Drag, all in aid of The Make A Difference Trust – fighting HIV and AIDS one stage at a time. Finding a new home at Cafe De Paris and featuring an entire cast made up of West End performers, this night of Dragalicious entertainment is a night not to be missed.

Choose from Cabaret table seating in the heart of the action or join the wallflowers in one of our side booths to try and escape our fierce Queens flirtatious glare. Or, why not hang out with the club kids upstairs in the balcony where you’re free to roam and take in the evenings proceedings from any angle. Book four cabaret seats to guarantee your own table or fancy a booth? Book for you and seven friends to secure your own booth for the night. Tabled seating will be pre-allocated by order of booking and size.

For those with a penchant for the extravagant, why not become one of our Ultimate Divas with a table for four and a bottle of bubbly to kick the night off, reserved anywhere from right up front, for those who want to see every sequin and false eyelash, to the back where you can shy away from the infamous interaction danger zone. Our Ultimate Divas also get their choice of an exclusive, bespoke MAD Drag Night Fashion Tee each, designed by the fabulously edgy Binge Designs. After booking this limited package, our Ultimate Divas will be contacted with 3 fabulous designs to choose from which will be ready and waiting for you at their table on the night.

View/Download the Bares 2017 Souvenir Programme Here

Lions… Tigers… Bares!

The best of the West End and beyond stripped off to see the Wizard in “Ruby Strippers”, the 8th edition of WEST END BARES, which took to the stage of the Novello Theatre on Sunday 29th October at 7pm and 9.30pm for two striptacular performances.

Join the much loved characters of Oz for an extraordinary night of high camp and spectacle which will see over 120 of the hottest performers take to the stage combining the naughtiness of burlesque with the magic of the West End. All the money raised goes to the Make A Difference Trust to fund HIV and AIDS projects that raise awareness, educate and provide care and support in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Graham Norton will return to host the event, which this year is titled “Ruby Strippers” and promises to present the much-loved characters of Oz in ways they’ve never been seen before.

Alongside the previously announced Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn who will open the show, this year’s co-hosts will be: Adam Garcia (The Exorcist), Summer Strallen (Young Frankenstein, The Sound of Music), Dianne Pilkington (Young Frankenstein, Wicked), Tom Allen (Live At The Apollo), Celinde Schoenmaker (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables) and Oliver Savile (Wicked), with more to be announced.

With unmissable choreography from Racky Plews (American Idiot; Footloose; Heaven on Earth), Ashley Nottingham (Thoroughly Modern Millie; Dance Mums; Disaster!), Will Lucas (Cats; Wicked), Matt Gillett (Jersey Boys; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Aaron Renfree (X Factor; The Saturdays), Simone Mistry-Palmer (Motown; Dirty Dancing), Jaye Elster (Singin’ In The Rain; Half A Sixpence), Ashley Jordan-Packer (Cats; Thriller Live), Fletcher Dobinson (Cats; West Side Story), Chris Whittaker (Blondel; Judy!), Tom Jackson Greaves (New Adventures; The Globe; Kneehigh) and James Wilson (Strictly Come Dancing; The Voice).

Now in its 8th year, WEST END BARES combines the naughtiness of burlesque along with the razzle dazzle of the West End and will feature over 100 of the hottest male and female dancers from the West End and beyond with a whole host of celebrity guests.

Previous celebrity supporters have included Ramin Karimloo, Sheridan Smith, John Barrowman, Paul O’Grady, Joe Lycett, Harriet Thorpe, Bianca Del Rio, Michelle Visage, Helen Lederer and Beverley Knight.

WEST END BARES benefits the Make A Difference Trust, a UK based charity with a vision of a world free from HIV and AIDs, and is based on the original concept Broadway Bares by Broadway and West End director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell.

Support your favorite West End performer and sponsor them as they dare to bare to help the Make A Difference Trust continue their vital work supporting HIV/AIDS projects both here in the UK and abroad.

Find out more about the Make A Difference Trust here: www.madtrust.org.uk

Audience favorite Villain: DeBlanks will make its London debut on Sunday, September 3 — and all proceeds benefit TheatreMAD.

You’ll laugh your (BODY PART) off!

A Time Out NY Critics’ Pick written by Billy Mitchell, Villain: DeBlanks is the uproarious improvisational comedy where the cast says words you put in their mouths. The audience provides nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. (the wilder, the better), and the actors provide the laughs — uncensored and unrehearsed — as they enact the story of Philip DeBlanks’ untimely demise. It is “Clue” meets adult “Mad Libs,” and it’s never the same show twice!

This benefit performance made possible through a grant from AE Ventures Foundation.

Villain DeBlanks is brought to you buy the West End Cabaret Company in association with MAD Trust

Cast information coming soon. Visit villaindeblanks.com to learn more about the show.

 

Join International performer Tim McArthur and some of his close chums for an evening of music, stories and lots of silly showbiz fun. Tim will be joined by Jamie Birkett, David Breeds, Stewart Briggs, Abigail Carter Simpson, Josh Considine, Sarah Dearlove, Alistair Fredericks, Jon R Harrison, Emma Ralston, Gary Tushaw, Kitty Whitelaw, Jo Wickham, Ellen Vereniks.

Tim wears many hats in the industry from performing to directing and presenting.  Maybe his alter ego Sister Mary McArthur may grace us with her presence, but fun is guaranteed.

Tim is delighted to be performing this special cabaret for the MAD Trust, having hosting West End Christmas 2016 at St Paul’s Covent Garden and hosting Red Carpet twice for West End Eurovision! For the last five years he has presented The Curtain up show on Resonance FM and he also currently hosts In The Green Room for Encore Radio

Cabaret credits include Mountains (Jermyn Street and St James Theatre) and seasons in NYC. KL and Cape Town