Help us share our love of a great story
Support The Yak Pack Theatre Project
Family Quiz Night In, on facebook Live
Enjoy a Yak Pack Family Quiz Night - from the comfort of your lounge!
We'll be hosting the event on Facebook Live so you can join us directly from our facebook page.
Family-friendly questions and challenges to test your trivia and bamboozle your brain!
Free event, all donations very gratefully received - please donate on our GoFundMe page
Southbourne, Bournemouth. 2-5pm
Why shop when you can swap?
​Bring clothes, shoes and handbags you no longer wear, and use them as currency to take home something you love!
£5 entry on the door (cash donations only)
plus at least one item to swap to take part
No need to book but please read the event information!
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Sundara Festival, Forest of Dean
Join us at Sundara to experience the full range of activities we'll be taking to the Spiti valley. We'll be running an instrument making workshop, and a 'Tipkins' craft workshop in the Kids Area - make your own Tipkins toy and an instrument from recycled treasure. Bring them along to the performance of 'Rubbish Heap Rising', and enjoy being part of the show!
Activities free; festival ticket required
21st Sept - 21st Oct 2020
Sponsored ride: Rome to Bournemouth
An epic event to launch our autumn fund raising - Arjuna and the team will be cycling 2000km from Rome to Bournemouth, camping en route.
We are in the planning stages, so please contact us if this sounds like an adventure you'd love to be part of! All participants need to pay their own way, and be actively involved with fundraising for the Yak Pack.
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Buddhafield Festival,
Join us in the Kids Area at Buddhafield to enjoy the activities we'll be taking to the Spiti valley. We'll be running an instrument making workshop, and a 'Tipkins' craft workshop in the Kids Area - make your own Tipkins toy and an instrument from recycled treasure. Bring them along to the performance of 'Rubbish Heap Rising', and enjoy being part of the show!
Activities free; festival ticket required
Music for a summer afternoon, Southbourne
What better way to spend a lazy summer Sunday afternoon, than listening to wonderful classical music and enjoying a delicious afternoon tea.
Listen to professional musicians, as well as local music students. Buffet style afternoon tea with all the usual tempting delights!
Booking essential as limted tables - £5 per person.
How the money works:
We are raising £5,900 which is the cost of delivering the Yak Pack Project itself,
in Spiti, from 5th July to 31st July 2021.
The Yak Pack performance team are contributing their time for free in the UK and India, and will be paying for their own
flights, visas, high altitude insurance, and food/accommodation for time spent in India outside of the Project dates.
Overall, the team will be spending about £6,000 of their own money.
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​​​Every penny counts!
£5 pays for a child to enjoy a story-telling performance
£25 pays for 25 children to receive an illustrate-it-yourself copy of 'Rubbish Heap Rising'
£50 pays for a teacher to attend a 2-day Read Aloud workshop
£100 pays for a days trek and 6 pairs of hands collecting litter from the Himalayas
£200 pays for a whole village to have a performance and craft workshop
​Your donations pay for:
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Staging performances throughout the Spiti Valley, with an aim of reaching 1200 children and families (10% of population)
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Workshops with 'Lets Open a Book' for local teachers to empower reading aloud
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Craft workshops for children to make instruments and toys from collected litter and reused materials
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Donations of books for every library we visit (including school libraries)
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Illustrate-it-yourself book copies of the performed story for audience children
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Paying for a local actor/narrator to join our team for 3 weeks
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Paying a driver/guide, and local transport, to join our team for 3 weeks
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Rehearsal and performance space rental in Spiti
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Props and costumes
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Litter picking to help clean up popular trekking routes
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Accommodation in homestays and food, during the project weeks, for UK and Spitian Project members
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We are committed to using locally owned businesses so that every rupee spent by the project
directly benefits residents of the Spiti Valley.
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A huge THANK YOU to all our supporters in 2018.
Not only did we reach our fund-raising target, we also smashed our target of reaching 1000 children - we estimate 1850 people saw the show, about 1500 of whom were children.
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