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Future Trust brings together music producers,
musicians, drama facilitators and educationalists to use their skills in
support of those children and
young people who have suffered as a result of economic deprivation, tragedies caused by Nature and/or political conflict.
In so doing they bring music, drama, art and entertainment to the socially
excluded. Whenever possible Future Trust will support indigenous NGO’s
in this work.
In its first year, 2000, Future Trust organised the <in·site> Concert at
the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar (Bosnia Hercegovina). This was followed
in 2001 with the CAN•DU PIRATE TV TOUR which visited Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia. The charity's first drama project is support for ART
FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, MACEDONIA with their youth drama workshop programmes.
In recent years Future Trust has been closely working with the THE MAYHEM COMPANY, administrating, accounting and advising the various youth theatre workshops and performances, please see www.themayhemcompany.net. The most recent production was in 2009 of Real Life Sex Makes Baby at the Royal Festival Hall.
Future Trust has also supported a young volunteer Jenny Culverwell in her year out working in a Peruvian orphanage PROJECT TRUST.
In 2010, Future Trust is working on The Mayhem Company's new and most challenging project to date, ELEPHANT 21, which is concerned with documenting and performing the oral histories of the Elephant & Castle housing and shopping estate in South London which is currently being entirely redeveloped. This project has been awarded major funding by the Heritage lottery Fund.
Future Trust are proud to be supporting an Indigenous Tribe in Vietnam, the "Catu" in Zara village. To preserve their heritage and avoid the need to move to inner cities and work in factories, the Catu's livelihood is reliant on the production of traditional cloths to sell to passing tourist trade. Their workshops and homes are almost constantly interrupted by power cuts, making their livelihood more threatened by severely limiting potential progress or prosperity. Therefore, we felt the best help we could offer would we be to donate an electricity power generator to power their community, and fuel to run it for a year. Future Trust are supporting the Catu through a Japanese NGO, 'Foundation for International Development & Relief'.
In its first year, 2000, Future Trust organised the concert at the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar (Bosnia Hercegovina). The concert brought together musicians and audience from the divided communities of former Yugoslavia.
This year, we are retuning to Mostar for the 2010 "Recording Star" event scheduled to take place on the same evening as a pop concert of famous BiH band 'Dubioza Kolektiv' and in the same week of the iconic international bridge jumping competition. The event is intended to promote local talent in a positive and fun way, and to give one winning participant a memorable professional recording studio experience.
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