Inspired by the true story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s childhood, and the pantomimes she put on with her sister to raise funds for the soldiers Wool Fund during World War Two in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle.

But in a parallel to the fundraising origins of Her Royal Highness, this performance will be raising much-needed funds for the charity because the performance almost didn’t go ahead.

Sadly, we lost out on some funding for this project that we were relying on. It happened at the last minute, and we knew there was no way we could cancel and let down the children who have worked so hard on this project.

We pressed ahead with the project even if we had an £882 shortfall in the budget. The show premired on 9 May 2021 and tickets for this performance of “The Princesses’ Play” were offered completely free. We wanted as many people as possible to see the beautiful work the children have created, and hear the wonderful stories the seniors have to share. We are thrilled to announce that we managed to raise £703 in less than 5 days!

We have hence taken a desicion to continue to offer the performance for free, but we have some funds to raise to make sure we can continue delivering many more Busy Buttons programmes, and helping more children across our community learn more about themselves, build their confidence and discover their potential.

If you can and are able to, please make a donation for this performance.

A gift of £19.50 could provide an art kit to a child from low-income family. £170 could enable that child to join our theatre programme.

Please give generously and help another child who would so urgently benefit from exploring their creativity with us.

Your kindness today will help make sure that more performances like this can happen.

Your generosity will help children in our communities find and tell more stories from the older generations.

Your compassion will help more diverse groups of young people come together, to tell stories creatively and learn about themselves and the world so they can become the citizens our communities need.

“I’m really pleased Busy Buttons stayed open. There’s no other place like it where you can really be creative and let your imagination run free.”

You can help make sure we can run more programmes like this for the children in our community. Please give generously. Thank you and enjoy the show!