AN ASPIRING teenage actor is hoping to organise a series of fundraising activities to help pay for a course at one of the top Drama schools in the UK, as part of her lifelong dream.

Ella Plummer from Crowthorne has recently received an offer to study a one-year intensive acting course.

Ella has spent the past 6 months auditioning at several drama schools and is very excited to receive her first confirmed offer.

She said: “Drama schools are extremely competitive and the numbers and figures are almost impossible however I have managed to make it happen.

“Out of around 2000 applicants and 16 places available I have been selected based on my acting abilities.

“I was over the moon to receive this offer, as you can imagine and I have worked so hard towards it, preparing for my auditions for the past 6 months and acting for the past 12 years.

"However with everything good, there comes bad. This 'one-year intensive acting course' is a self-funded course, no help from the government is available. I am not prepared to give this incredible opportunity up because of money though.”

In order to pay for her dream course Ella has decided she wants to organise fundraising activities including a car boot sale.

Ms Plummer said: “I am thinking coffee mornings, bake sales at schools and summer fairs in my area and also I want to do some car boot sales perhaps with some things donated that people don't want anymore.”

It has been Ella’s dream for as long as she can remember and she has been acting since the age of 5.

She added: “I have been acting for most of my life, ever since I did the school 'nativity', I have not wanted to leave the stage.

“I've spent my whole life performing in school shows, working with theatre groups and most recently have performed with the National Theatre.

“I love creating drama and developing scripts, making every character my own. I have been a part of a theatre group in Ascot for the past 7 years, putting on two musicals a year.”