Local Theatre in Education Company offers donations from bookings to charities.

Intext Performance, based in Eastleigh, is giving a £5 donation from every booking taken by schools in this region to The Mayor of Eastleigh's Charity.

Chris Connaughton, the company's founder and Artisitc Director, performed a variety of Victorian stories at the Mayor's Parlour on Friday evening in support of Homestart, and The Rainbow Centre, The event raised over £290. He has decided to continue his link with the Mayor's Charity fundraising until the end of the school year.

To find out more about the company's storytelling, plays and literacy work in schools, or to make a booking, go to tinyurl.com/n26ghz or call 02380 618381