Samaritans Pitch

Pitch- Samaritans

For our final project, we are producing a charity live show and for that we have to come up with the charity to set this show on. In doing so we were set into groups of 3 to come up with a charity to pitch to the rest of the class. in my group we discussed many different charities to of those caring for animals to helping people in need. One of our team member Ross, was adamant that we focus on the charity ‘Samaritans’ as it was a well known local charity in Bath that helps people who need someone to talk to about their issues or worries. As a group we all agreed that this was a really good and a solid idea to go with.

Following our decision, we had a week to put together a 5-minute pitch. During that week we had made a google doc with each of us in the group adding our ideas to the pitch. On the Wednesday we all met up to go through and time the pitch and also put together the order in which we would all be speaking. Also in this meet up we went along and added a bit more information as this was the first time we met as a group and doing this made a big difference as there were all individual bits of information we all thought would be effective in the pitch. One of these being a storyboard, so one of the guys in the group drew out a storyboard for the insert we would want to create for the charity, this would be passed around for the audience to see when the pitch would be going on so they get a clear idea of what the insert would look like. With our pitch we figured that having a PowerPoint was a bit cliché so instead we found a promotional video that Samaritans had already made just to show what they do from the charity themselves.

When it came to the day of the pitch, our group where the second group to show our charity pitch. Once the first pitch had finished, the third member of our group was no where to be seen as we were setting up he luckily turned up just in time, with his delay I became more nervous about pitching. As the pitch started everything we had planned ran smoothly, nothing went wrong, and we managed to just fit in the time limit. However, when it came to the questions there was a few which our group couldn’t answer as we hadn’t looked fully in depth about the charity. That area was where our pitching went a little downhill, not knowing some of the answers the audience wanted.

This was the script from our pitch

Although our pitch didn’t win for our class project, I feel like the pitch we came up with was loaded with information about the charity and also what we could include in the insert to make something that shows off what the charity Is trying to promote.