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The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025

Posted 02 Dec 2025

Copyright © Helen Murray 2024

We're raising vital bursary funds to enable young people facing financial hardship to take part in the breadth of our national activity across our 70th Anniversary Year in 2026.

Donate Here Before Tues 9 Dec and Your Donation will be Doubled

You will support young people like Samira Ahmed, a Deaf performer and current NYT Member. Support from an NYT bursary enabled Samira to progress to work with Assemble, our national programme that is giving disabled young people greater agency in access to culture and that is expanding in 2026 to enable them to take up employment in the creative industries.

Samira says "It’s so important that disabled people have access to theatre, because how can we have a truly representative society if we’re not hearing from them? Joining NYT's Assemble made me realise how powerful inclusion can be. For the first time, I walked into a space and didn’t have to hide who I was. For me, being a disabled young person in a leadership role shows our participants that if I can do it, so can they. Assemble made me realise how vital it is to create spaces where access isn’t an afterthought, it’s built in from the start. That’s how we make theatre, and society truly inclusive.”

Watch NYT members perform alongside Lemn Sissay in the Big Give

You can double your donation and support more opportunities for young talent like this by donating between 2-9 December. www.nyt.org.uk/biggive

The video features the poem ‘Making a Difference’, written and performed by renowned poet Lemn Sissay, alongside NYT members Daniel Romain, Freya Catherine Purdie and Holly Masters.

Film by The Big Give
Footage provided by National Youth Theatre, Ministry of Stories,
Bloomin Arts, National Youth Choir & Magpie Dance.

Runtime: 01:26