Tuesday 18th December

FULL PANTO RUN THROUGH tonight!

PLEASE bring scripts and I need a FULL CAST turnout please!

We will run through the entire play, start to finish as if for a performance. I'll need your patiencce and cooperation AND your concentration!

See you there, 6.30pm. Rich.

Snow White Rehearsals

With the KYSPA camera now back in action, here's a few rehearsal pics!

Jenny Wen, Prince Peasemold & Scott Watt perform "The Establishment Song"

Snow accepts an apple from Queenie; silly girl!

PP would like a kiss but, on the whole, Snow would rather not!

Who is the fairest of them all? Mirror's answer has Queenie fuming, but Mirror has had enough of Queenie. It's going to end in tears!

Tuesday 11th December

6.30 - 7.30 7 Children, Cind, Snow, PP Watt & Wen

7.30pm - 8.30pm Dyllan, Snow, Mirror, PP

Tuesday 4th December

6.30 - 7.30 7 children & Snow White & Cinderella please! (and Sam) Scenes 8, 11, 12, 13

7.30 - 8.30 FULL CAST for scenes 12 & 13.

PLEASE cooperate tonight. Scenes 12 & 13 are going to be the hardest to get right. You're going to have to be patient and stay focussed. Cheers.

Also, could you check with parents if you are available any Sunday Afternoons please? Time is running away with us & we need to step up the rehearsal rate now.

New Blog Feature!

Just to keep you lot entertained and informed, I have added a "useful links" feature to our Blog. You will find it at the foot of the page just above the pic of us all on the Lindridge visit.

Film Street is mainly for 6 - 9 year olds - ideal if you have younger brothers or sisters interested in film making. It's just possible that some of you who are a bit older might enjoy it too.

Chew TV is a sort of youtube for Cornish young people. I hope to submit a few of our films quite soon.

Talented Young People is an amazing website that aims to help you achieve whatever career you are interested in. It's never to soon to start getting experience. This website offers career tips on just about everything and a HUGE contact database for organisations. Really Useful Website, that!

Tuesday 27th November

This evening we will need ONLY the principles, the Princesses, Cruella and Long John. That is, Snow, Mirror, Dyllan, PP, Watt, Wen, Queenie, Ariel, Jasmine, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Craven & Ghoul.

We will be working on "There's Always Me" and "The Establishment Song" including experimenting with the use of backing singers to support the soloists.

The Children need not attend this evening - we will hold a rehearsal for just the 7 children for the first hour next week.

Why does KYSPA charge a membership fee?

As a charitable organisation, KYSPA is committed to being affordable for its members. Our weekly fee is quite low and we charge a reduced rate for additional members from the same family.

However, there are certain annual costs that make it necessary for us to charge an annual membership fee.

The first of these is insurance.

• We have to insure ourselves against accidents occurring to our members whilst they are in our care.
• We insure against our members causing damage or injury to other people or property
• We insure our leaders against injury and litigation
• We have a basic level of injury insurance for both leaders and members

The next set of expenses relate to training. Any organisation has to take "reasonable care" as far as risk assessment is concerned to protect its staff and members. This includes maintaining a certain level of skills for our leaders such as:

• First Aid (a legal requirement)
• Minibus Driver Training (for trips and residential visits)
• Child Protection
• Health and safety

Finally, we have running costs to cover such as:

• CRB Checks for our leaders
• Consumables such as paper, printer cartiridges, pens, costumes etc.
• YHA Membership for residentials

Beyond these expenses we also try to build a slight pool of money to subsidise the cost of trips and activities, again to keep KYSPA as affordable as possible. Although the "minibus incident" was a blow to our finances, we had built a reserve to cover the cost. (In future, by the by, minibus will be hired WITHOUT an insurance excess!)

In the coming year we will be looking to develop our main website and this, too, will require money.

Overall, KYSPA does offer a great deal for the lowest possible annual fee. As stated on the membership information sheet, if we can generate more money through successful stage productions and events, we may in future be able to reduce the membership fee to a nominal ammount. However, the Trustees do feel that a degree of financial support and commitment by our members is not unreasonable, given the ammount of free time that is generously given by all involved to keep ther Society going.

Kyspa's "year" for which the membership fee covers our members runs in sync with our insurance premium falling due, rather than the financial or calendar year. Therefore fees paid this month will cover members until November 2008.