New funding to unlock young people's dreams
A new initiative designed to support gifted and talented young people has launched in South Yorkshire. With grants up to £10,000, The Mayor’s Youth Impact Fund provides funding to help young people overcome practical barriers like travel costs, access to equipment and specialised coaching or training.
To be eligible you must be aged 11 to 19, live in South Yorkshire and be able to explain how these funds would help you achieve your potential. Candidates can apply directly or be nominated by teachers, youth workers, coaches and community leaders. Apply or nominate someone below.
The Mayor's Youth Impact fund is a scheme brought by partnership between South Yorkshire's Mayor, Oliver Coppard, the South Yorkshire Community Foundation, and the King's Trust.
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Amid the detritus of a party – paper cups and empty bottles strewn across the floor, strands of glitter around them like washed-up seaweed – a woman in a bad blonde wig picks her way towards us. “OK, OK, I guess I’ll speak – I’ll be the first…or are we all going to sit here in total silence?” she says, eyeballing the Friday night audience in Sheffield Theatres' Playhouse. There are some slightly nervous titters.
Because actually, she isn’t speaking. The voice we hear is the slow, treacly American drawl of an AI-generated voice, which she lip-syncs to. The effect is immediately uncanny: an unreal machine voice matching up to a very real body. This unnerving quality is only amplified when two other performers in bad wigs also start exaggeratedly mouthing to computer-generated voices, performing the same script: “I guess I’ll speak…”
Our laughter gets a little more nervous, as the repetition goes on and the thought emerges: What if this is… the whole show?
And it’s not an unreasonable thought, because this is Cold Sweat: the British premiere of a new production by Sheffield-based theatre company Forced Entertainment (sadly no longer available to watch in Sheffield — but there are plenty more shows from them coming up locally, and more on this later). Their shows are famous for their performance-art weirdness, often relying on repetition, improvisation and very long running times. Well, ‘famous’.
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