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CIC Director Elaine Pritchard wrote a play called Strikers about the life of Vale Rawlings and assembled a cast of 29 local people to perform it for a one-off night at Burton Town Hall on Friday December 6 2024. Some of these actors were performing on stage for the first time while others were members of local community theatre groups. They said they found the experience of performing the play in a venue where Vale himself stood and spoke 110 years ago moving, empowering and confidence-building. All profits from the night were donated to the two charities this CIC supports. YMCA Burton Charity no. 1077798 and SARAC Charity no.1180902 each received £1,178.60. Local people who bought tickets for the show were moved and entertained by the show. It was a true, local story they did not know and their positive feedback has appeared on our website https://www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/strikers-is-a-hit as well as our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/ForgottenBurtonStories Our publicity about the show and our engagement with the local community led to East Staffordshire Borough Council proposing that a room that is open to the public at Burton Town Hall should be renamed The Vale Rawlings Room. This was unanimously agreed by every councillor across all political parties at the December 2024 full council meeting. A nameplate is now on the door of this room. Two talks were given to local history groups in 2024 one in Burton and one in Derby and more are planned for 2025. This activity is creating interest in Burton’s local history and heritage and generating civic pride. Any speaker’s fees are also donated to the CIC and all profits will continue to go to the two charities. In 2025 Elaine is working on the manuscript of a non-fiction book about Vale’s life and times. This will also include general local history of Burton 1887-1940. All profits will go to the two charities.
The CIC’s stakeholders are the general public of Burton-on-Trent and the surrounding area, the local people who appeared in Strikers, the organisations who have donated to the costs of staging the play, the descendants of Vale Rawlings and the charities we donate all profits to. We have networked extensively to raise awareness of Vale’s story and the charities we fundraise for. The two charities we chose are ones that reflect the values that Vale lived his life by. He strove to help working men and women improve their lives and supported vulnerable teenage girls working at a Burton factory in 1914 who did unpleasant jobs with toxic substances for very low wages. We have attended business networking meetings Uttoxeter Business Network and Business Focus Burton to raise awareness and support from small, local businesses. We ran a launch event at The Brewhouse Arts Centre in May 2024 to which businesses, charities, community groups, local councillors and local arts organisations were invited. The two charities we support also spoke there. All our networking and other promotional activities amplify the messages of the two charities, YMCA Burton and SARAC, and gives them an additional platform to raise awareness of their work locally. We were invited to join the Support Staffordshire organisation which allows us to network and collaborate with other organisations and charities that work to bring about positive change in our community https://supportstaffordshire.org.uk/ Directors Elaine Pritchard and Will Walker have made three separate appearances on our local community radio station Burton radio during 2024 talking about Vale and the project. Elaine issued a general call-out for people interested in volunteering to appear in Strikers and everyone who wanted to be in it was given a role. This blend of experienced local, amateur performers and people with no previous performing experience made it an inclusive and heart-warming evening. Elaine chose to perform the play as a rehearsed reading, allowing people to avoid the stress of learning lines by heart and having space to think about the words they were saying and the story they were telling. It also allowed them to be part of this project alongside other work and home commitments, which was important to many of them with busy lives. Our website and Facebook pages see URLS in Part 1 answer allow us to engage with local people and take their thoughts and feelings on board. We also have a BlueSky account at https://bsky.app/profile/valerawlings.bsky.social Elaine made extensive appeals on community radio and online and researched through the Ancestry platform and networked through the local community to trace descendants of Vale Rawlings at the start of 2024. It was important to us that they were happy with what we were doing. We are in regular contact with many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Many came to the May launch. They are fully supportive of the project and delighted that their ancestor is being remembered and recognised in his home town. They have helped with their memories, and by giving us access to family photos and documents.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
17 April 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Elaine Pritchard
Status: Director