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New York or Bust

We are a disabled theatre company looking for funding to take us to the Big Apple! We've been asked to perform in New York and need your help to get there!

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New York or Bust

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New York or Bust

New York or Bust

We are a disabled theatre company looking for funding to take us to the Big Apple! We've been asked to perform in New York and need your help to get there!

We are a disabled theatre company looking for funding to take us to the Big Apple! We've been asked to perform in New York and need your help to get there!

We are a disabled theatre company looking for funding to take us to the Big Apple! We've been asked to perform in New York and need your help to get there!

We are a disabled theatre company looking for funding to take us to the Big Apple! We've been asked to perform in New York and need your help to get there!

Company of Friends
Company of Friends
Company of Friends
Company of Friends
1 Campaign |
Liverpool, United Kingdom
$325 USD 10 backers
11% of $2,800 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Company of Friends are a group of performers with learning disabilities who put on plays, make films, dance, sing and generally have a good time...

But there is a serious point to everything the company does. It's all about independence- independence in love, life and work.

The Company was founded by my dad, the late John Rand, a clinical psychologist and also the father of a son with Down Syndrome, my brother.

In the 1960s and 70s he was tasked with getting people with learning disabilities out of so-called 'sub-normal' homes and off long-term drug regimes.

He was passionate about not underestimating how independent people with learning disabilities can be. It is a challenge but it is also essential in a civilised society.

He felt that creativity, imagination and performance are often extremely powerful as  expressions of freedom and independence.  In 2008, he helped set up a theatre group and they called it The Company of Friends

With a simple motto: All are welcome!

John had a lot of contacts in the USA through his work so it was with great excitement that we were invited to the Young Adults Institute in New York to make a presentation at their 2014 conference on the theme of designing the future for people with learning disabilities. The Young Adults Institute was set up after shocking revelations in the 1970s by daytime TV host Geraldo of conditions inside an institution for people with learning disabilities.

Fortunately, things have changed but there is still a long way to go.

The company were all fired up to be going to New York and to tell everyone about our work and meet other groups who might inspire us as well. The only problem was….

Money.  We haven't got any. We are all volunteers.

So if you could give Company of Friends a helping hand over the Pond to the Big Apple, we would be really really grateful. Thank you!

Thank you!

Helena Kane


Be an ANGEL for Company of Friends

We can’t offer you champagne and first nights, red carpets and limos, but if you would like to make a small donation to Company of Friends to make performance a route to independence for people with learning disabilities, then…..

You can be a CHERUB for $25 (15.00 UKP / 18.00 EURO)

Or an ANGEL for $50 (30.00 UKP / 36.00 EURO)

Or an Archangel for $100 (60.00 / 72.00 EURO)

Please upload a photo/avatar and we will design an angelic certificate just for you!


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