Myself and six other
Bournemouth and Poole based childrens entertainers pooled all our different talents to put on a show at Poole High School Theatre. The show was to help fundraise for a local charity,
Amelia’s Rainbow. This is a charity started by Karl and Chantel Cox in memory of their daughter Amelia, who passed away in 2010 from Neuroblastoma.
We meet regularly to chat about the business of entertaining children as well as organising evenings out. We have all built a great friendship and will often recommend each other for parties and events if we are not able to fill the booking.
Months of planning, sharing ideas and publicising the show resulted in a sell-out show to 300 mums, dads and children who attended the first “BEN Family Variety Show“.
We entertained the audience with a mix of comedy, magic, balloon modelling, juggling, audience participation and lots more. The show was a huge success with all proceeds from ticket sales going to Amelia’s Rainbow.
The acts were Mr Merlin, Jamie Jigsaw, Krazy Kev, Philip Dixon (Get Up and Groove), Jules the Entertainer, Jamie Jambo, Pete Matthews and myself.
You can see from the photos we had a lot of fun and the audience was all very complimentary and eager for us to repeat the show.
