Law firm Pinsent Masons has provided financial support for the annual Generation Ladywood Welcome Reception to enable over 600 local school children to attend Town Hall Symphony Hall’s Christmas show, The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Members of the firm also volunteered at the performance to meet and greet audience members and hand out event programmes.
The Generation Ladywood Welcome Reception is a free-to-access event for Ladywood primary school pupils and pre-school aged children and their families. For many of these children, this will be the first time that they experience a live, staged performance.
Generation Ladywood is Town Hall Symphony Hall’s long-term project to connect Ladywood residents to music, delivering a lasting legacy in the area and inspiring a new generation to enjoy a lifelong love of music. Every year over 18,000 young people and adults engage with the project.
Working with top-quality partners, THSH ensure opportunities to learn and make music are prominent throughout Ladywood. Activities range from:
- Enabling school children to learn how to play music with professional jazz musicians;
- Pop-up performances in school playgrounds;
- Musical Picnics on-site and in Children’s Centres;
- Supporting people – often in challenging circumstances – to attend concerts
Associate for Pinsent Masons LLP, Nathalia Perera said; Pinsent Masons is delighted to support the Generation Ladywood Welcome Reception presentation of the Tiger Who Came to Tea. The key focus of our community investment programme is “inspiring young lives”, and this is undoubtedly what The Welcome Reception achieves, bringing music and the arts to young people and their families in Ladywood. It was a privilege to experience first-hand the vital impact that engagement with this interactive performance had on the children attending, which no doubt will lead to strong future engagement with this important project, and with THSH more widely. We look forward to future collaborations with THSH in enriching the lives of young people within our communities.
Mrs Pal, a teacher at City Road Academy who attended the show said; Thank you yet again for organising such a wonderful performance! The children really enjoyed the play and talked about it all afternoon. They remembered the songs and actions and sang it with their friends. One little boy even said “If the Tiger came to my house I would give him roti (chapatti)!”
To learn more about Generation Ladywood contact Becky Woodcock on 0121 644 5185 or at: becky.woodcock@thsh.co.uk.
