- Presents

On the 22nd to 24th July 2011, Rrrants continued their fund raising extravaganzas with BardAid at the London Fringe. This weekend festival hosted at the The Camden Eye by Rrrants featured a host of poets and performers from the Rrrants Collective including a celebration of Female performers including Helen Arney, Joolz Denby & Viv Albertine.

The RRRANTS Collective stages these events regularly to raise money for the purchase of small press, independent poetry books that would not normally be found on the school's curriculum. If you would like to be involved or have poetry works to donate or know of a school that would be interested in receiving a gift of poetry books from Rrrants then please contact us at info@rrrants.com

The 2011 Bardaid festival Featured Music, Story telling & Poetry, all by original artists and finished off this very special event with outstanding performances from Tim Wells & Gerry Potter. Thanks to everyone who has helped us so far. Here are some press releases from our BardAid recipients

	Here are the students from Ousedale School in Olney, Bucks, after a hard day of poetry slamming and receiving some seriously non curriculum books
	via The Bardaid Initiative here at RRRANTS. They were accepted on behalf of the school by the school's librarian, Lucy Campion on 3rd December 2012.

And another cache of poetry books have been delivered

by the Milton Keynes poet Laureate, Mr Mark Niel.

They were accepted by the deputy head, Mr Ian Bacon, on the

5th of November 2012 for their 'Poetic Fireworks Day'

Here are the students that reached the final in of the poetry

slam at Denbigh School in Milton Keynes with a selection

from this Bardaid donation.

September 2012 saw the next Bardaid cache of poetry books being donated to

Eston Park Academy, Burns Road, Middlesbrough,

They were received by two of those most fun looking English teachers we at RRRANTS have ever seen!

Daniel Robinson and James Goodwill

Another cache of poetry books was delivered today, the 28th June 2012, to Barr's Hill School and Community College in Coventry by our very own 'Scrubberjack' aka Jackie Smallridge. The books, once again, have been donated by RRRANTS through The Bardaid Initiative scheme providing schools with 'non curriculum poetry with an edge' just enjoyable enough to encourage students to read and write themselves in between the hours of tele watching, button pressing and joystick holding :)

The books were presented to the Head librarian

Mr Crilly pictured here with Jackie and two of her grandsons who attend the school .

On July 22nd Donna Daniels-Moss presented yet another cache of free poetry books on behalf of The Bardaid Initiative and The RRRANTS Poetry Collective, to a local school. They were accepted by Mr Farrukh Munir, Teacher in Charge on behalf of Roman Fields School, Box Lane, Hemel.

On Friday 25th March, 2011, Mark Niel, undoubtedly one of the most hard working poets in the UK today, delivered the next cache of poetry books to Leon School and Sports College in Milton Keynes

on behalf of RRRANTS. Having spent the day there doing a poetry workshop with year nine students, he presented the books to school librarian, Ms Amber Sexton.

Donna deliveres our 4th caché of poetry books to Kings Langley High School, Hertfordshire.

On Friday 1^st October Donna delivered our 4th caché of poetry books to Kings Langley High School, Hertfordshire. They were accepted by Yvonne Christian-Snow on behalf of the school. The school was highly delighted and have since put a poetry/rrrants display up and we are currently discussing how we can have a mini rrranting session for the students!

Paul Eccentric of Rrrants present the Bard-Aid poetry books to

Ruislip School

Rrrants present the Bard-Aid poetry books to

Bushey Meads School, Bushey

On 27^th May 2010, Donna Daniels-Moss presented the second cache of Poetry books, on behalf of The RRRANTS poetry collective's charity 'BARDAID', to Ms Wendy castle, head librarian of Bushey Meads School, Bushey. The First being to Queens School, Hertfordshire.

The RRRANTS Collective stages these events regularly to raise money for the purchase of small press, independent poetry books that would not normally be found on the school's curriculum.

'I like 'BARDAID', John Hegley

Rrrants present the first Bard-Aid poetry books to Queens School On 26^th April 2010, Donna Daniels-Moss presented a cache of Poetry books on behalf of The RRRANTS poetry Collective to Ms Siobhan Childers of Queens School, Bushey. Queens is the first school in Hertfordshire to receive the books and benefit directly from The RRRANTS charity, 'Bardaid' (raising money to put non curriculum poetry books in schools). Many of these books have been donated by established poets in the hope that they will encourage students of the Wii generation to put down their joysticks and pick up the pen thus creating the poets of tomorrow.
RRRANTS have dedicated this year's profits, from their live gigs, to the Bardaid charity to ensure that many more schools across Great Britain will benefit accordingly. RRRANTS have over 70 performers, including comedic poets and parodists in our stable and they are all committed to bringing the spoken word to the masses, as they perform relentlessly across the country.

If you know of a local school that would appreciate a 'poetry drop' please let us know by contacting Donna at donna@rrrants.com
For future events or further 'Bardaid' information, please go to www.rrrants.com

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