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Dancer Tilly’s date with Billy


A TALENTED teenager has been wowing audiences during a tour of the hit musical Billy Elliot. Tilly Cook (13) played to audi-


ences throughout the UK and Ire- land after being chosen to dance in the show, which also visited Ger- many. The youngster, who came home


in July after touring since last Sep- tember, played the part of Tracey Atkinson, one of the pupils in the ballet class which the lead charac- ter joins. Tilly, a pupil at Sutton Valence School,was previously on theWest End stage for a year when she played Hortensia in the musical Matilda at the Cambridge Theatre. Her mum Mandy, who runs Mandy Ellen Performing Arts Stu- dio in Earl Street, Maidstone, said: “She has had a fantastic time. The day she finished in Matilda, the Billy Elliot company flew her to Scotland and she thenwent on tour with them. They are the two best shows that a youngster can be in. “I took her to see Matilda when


she was nine. She sat there and said: ‘I want to be in that show’. She auditioned for it three times before she got the part. It was her dream show and she was deter- mined to be in it. It shows that dreams can come true – you can achieve them.” Tilly, who has been attending


her mum’s stage school since she was five, has been continuing her studies while away. Mandy said:


Tilly Cook at Matilda


“It has been a wonderful experi- ence for her. She is very level- headed and has really worked hard with her school work. They are verywell-tutored while on tour and her school has been very sup- portive. “She is a very clever girl and has managed to get allAand B grades. She has been working non-stop for two years and now she is going to have awell-earned rest.”


Cash for trust work


A CHARITY based in Yalding has received a second year of funding to support its work in schools. The Kenward Trust’s Think Differently campaign is a an early intervention outreach serv- ice, focused on substance mis- use.


Using real life stories and ex- periences from individuals with previous drug and alcohol addic- tions, ex-offenders and current prison volunteers, engage with young people, typically aged 12- 24, raising awareness of the is- sues and potential consequences of drug and alcohol dependency. The Colyer-Fergusson Charita-


ble Trust has agreed to fund the project for a second year. The in- dependent grant-making trust supports schemes that improve the lives of people in Kent. Jacqueline Rae, from the trust,


said: “This project embodies the type of project that Colyer-Fer- gusson Charitable Trust wishes to fund to support young people with poverty of opportunity.We are grateful to the team at Ken- ward Trust for delivering such a successful and innovative initia- tive.” The Think Differently team


has visited more than 42 schools in the last nine months. The ex- tended funding from Colyer-Fer- gusson will continue the work for another 12 months. John Shanley, project manager


of Kenward in the Community, said: “The response from schools has been very positive and they are very grateful for the workwe have done to bring education about alcohol and drug misuse into the classroom.We look for- ward to another productive year in schools.”


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