Students impressed an audience of influential people from the arts including pop singer Ms Dynamite with a showcase of talent.

Young people on courses run by arts charity Wac Arts in Belsize Park showed off their singing, dancing and acting skills as they performed at the college’s base at the Old Hampstead Town Hall in Haverstock Hill.

The event last month raised £20,000 for the charity to help it continue running its many arts programmes for youngsters aged 16 to 25.

A spokesman for Wac Arts said: “I think people were blown away by the diversity of the wide range of programmes we do.”