BYP Registered Charity Number: 1102702
BRADFORD YOUTH PLAYERS
BYP is unique, being the only youth club in West Yorkshire which specialises in delivering all of its youth work through the performing arts. We combine the best bits of a theatre school and an amateur dramatics group in a youth club setting.
The Friends of Bradford Youth Players is a registered charity (number 1102702) that provides opportunities for young people through the medium of the performing arts. To achieve this aim, the Friends of BYP run youth clubs under the name Bradford Youth Players (BYP), which offer young people the chance to make new friends and build friendships, develop their personal, social, transferable and performing skills , and generally enjoy themselves. Why not become a member of the BYP Supporters' Club and show your support for BYP by clicking here.
The BYP Supporters' Club plays a key role helping with fundraising to ensure that BYP maintains and develops the high-quality opportunities on offer to young people.
Raising the profile of BYP, its opportunities for young people, and its events, is also part of what the BYP Supporters' Club does. This might be by displaying posters or delivering flyers, time permitting, or simply by talking to people about BYP's activities and events and publicising BYP by word of mouth.
The BYP Supporters' Club is a social group, and we run special Supporters events. These might include garden parties, theatre trips (to take advantage of group booking discounts ), quiz nights, the chance to participate in performing arts-workshops, and other such activities.
BYP sources or creates all of its own costumes, sets and props, and manages the backstage and front-of-house aspects of all of its productions. BYP maintains a costume store at Little Lane, and takes responsibility for managing costume, make-up and other similar tasks for events. Additionally, BYP assist Little Lane Church with work that is needed at the hall. The help and expertise BYP Supporters are very important here.
All BYP Supporters' Club members gain automatic membership of the parent charity, the Friends of Bradford Youth Players, and Supporters may become trustees of the charity, sitting on the BYP Management Committee and overseeing the running of BYP's activities. The trustees have overall responsibility for the Friends of BYP, and are listed on the Charity Commission website. A list of trustees can be found below.
Being a BYP Supporter means you can be secure in the knowledge that you are helping young people to reach their potential. The benefits of BYP's youth groups, which include increased confidence, greater personal ambition, and the development of important transferable skills such as leadership, creativity and team working, are invaluable to young people as they progress through their teenage years and early twenties, and begin adult life.
BYP Supporters also enjoy the following benefits:
Supporters' Club Membership Rates
Membership of the BYP Supporters' Club runs from September to August each year, and costs £15 for the first supporter in a household. Further people at the same address only pay £10 to join the Supporters' Club.
The membership fee reduces to £10 for all Supporters who join after Christmas, and £5 for all Supporters who join after Easter.
Volunteers
Volunteers are always welcome at BYP. Please see the volunteers page for information on how to get involved.
BYP is kindly supported by Bradford MDC
