The egg’s growing audience of 65,500 people, principally children, teenagers and their families, come from around the region including B&NES, Bristol, Wiltshire, Swindon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Dorset. However one of the issues in the region is that the apparent wealth masks pockets of real deprivation and social isolation, particularly in former industrial and mining areas and rural villages. In these areas the perception that the Theatre Royal Bath is elitist, expensive and for older people, coupled with transport issues, forms a real barrier for disadvantaged young people to access the egg. The eggpot bursary fund was established in 2006 to enable the egg to reach and engage disadvantaged or disaffected young people who would benefit from further involvement but cannot because of their geographical, financial or social circumstances. The egg team encounter these young people during workshops in schools, youth clubs and other settings. With funding from the eggpot, the young people can be offered financial support for transport, tickets to productions and bursary places for workshops, holiday courses and YPT activities etc. The egg team works closely with education and social services to identify those young people who would most benefit from bursary places. This process includes mentoring at-risk young people, offering them positive extra-curricular activities and good role models. We aim to raise between £5-10,000 annual to enable around 50 young people to take part in theatre activities that they and their families cannot afford and to give them the same opportunities as more priviledged children already enjoy and benefit from.