The Olibob Arts Foundation

08/06/2026

Thank you to all the patrons of Silchester Players for their donations during the bucket collections after the 4 amazing performances of their latest production, The Unexpected Guest.

You helped us to raise a whopping £637 for The Olibob Arts Foundation. This will fund several full time bursaries at the local Youth Drama Group we support.

We will of course claim Gift Aid from HMRC which will add another £160 to your donations 😀

We also wish to thank the entire Cast and Crew, and especially Brian and Jill Gillett for their massive support.

www.olibob.org.uk

15/03/2026

There is less than one week to purchase raffle tickets for the chance to win an amazing prize of a week's stay in a holiday cottage in Yorkshire.

All funds raised will support our 2026 projects.

Feel free to share this post with your friends, family and colleagues.

The Olibob Arts Foundation have a fantastic raffle called Win a North Yorkshire Holiday Cottage Stay worth £800!. You can view all the details and purchase tickets here https://www.olibob.org.uk/raffle/2/win-a-north-yorkshire-holiday-cottage-stay-worth-ps800

13/02/2026

We want to thank the patrons of Silchester Players for their donations during the bucket collection at each of the amazing performances of their 2026 panto “Bunfight at the OK Corral”.

You helped us to raise a whopping £917 for The Olibob Arts Foundation. This will enable us for example to fund over 5 full time bursaries at the local Youth Drama Group we support. We will of course claim Gift Aid from HMRC which will add another £229 to your donations 😀

We also wish to thank the entire Cast and Crew, and especially Director Alan Birdsworth for their part in this fund raiser.

Please visit our website to see our latest fund raiser to win a stay in a cottage in North Yorkshire.

www.olibob.org.uk

30/01/2026

Win a holiday in North Yorkshire to help The Olibob Arts Foundation

For only £5 a ticket you can win a week-long (7 night) stay in a 3-bedroom holiday cottage in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, worth £800!

Buying tickets is easy on our website below.

The raffle winner will be drawn on 22nd March. What’s more, we’re limiting the raffle to just 500 tickets to increase your chances of winning.

The prize has been kindly offered by one of our lovely patrons and is available for the week of Friday 2nd October to Friday 9th October.

Please do support the great work we are doing, and please do take the opportunity to look at our website to see what we’ve been up to.

If you would prefer not to buy a raffle ticket, the website also allows donations 😊

Note that The Olibob Arts Foundation is fully licenced to run raffles in the UK.

The Olibob Arts Foundation have a fantastic raffle called Win a North Yorkshire Holiday Cottage Stay worth £800!. You can view all the details and purchase tickets here https://www.olibob.org.uk/raffle/2/win-a-north-yorkshire-holiday-cottage-stay-worth-ps800

20/01/2026

We've published the latest annual report for the Olibob Arts Foundation for the year ending March 2025. The link below will take you the news report on our website.

Thank you so much for all our supporters.

Annual Report to March 2025 - Now Available

09/01/2026

We're super proud of our latest Olibob Award recipient, a young man we first met in 2022. We really hope that his dream of a future in theatre come true