#SaveOurTheatres - Guide Bridge Theatre

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We’re part of a national initiative launched by Theatres Trust to enable us to hold our annual bucket shake, but this year it’s online.

Guide Bridge Theatre is part of a national initiative launched by Theatres Trust to help us raise funds via a virtual bucket shake this festive season.

Originally founded in 1941, Guide Bridge Theatre is an entirely volunteer run amateur theatre serving the local community. This year we have been able to stage just one play before we were forced to close. Your donation will make sure that we can reopen in 2021. Please help us make sure that we can welcome visitors and audiences  again by making a donation to the virtual bucket. 

Our Virtual Bucket Shake

Every year we fundraise at our pantomime which raises vital funds. This year due to the global pandemic, we are unable to do this. We are facing a loss of income from ticket sales, merchandise and bars, as well as missing out on the opportunity for traditional fundraising. This is why we’d like to invite you to take part in a Virtual Bucket Collection this panto season.

Your donations contribute to the upkeep and running costs of the theatre building and ensure we can to reopen in the spring, and this year it's more important than ever. 

About Guide Bridge Theatre

Guide Bridge Theatre is a non-professional theatre producing six plays and one pantomime per year. It’s also home to a number of other community groups including; a theatre group for adults with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties, a youth theatre, Base Performing Arts providing dance and movement classes for young people, and a seniors tap-class. Over 5,000 people benefit from its activities each year.

The Theatre, which celebrates its 80th year in 2020, is run by an army of approximately 100 volunteers from all backgrounds, ageing from 10 to 92, and many have been involved for more than 50 years.

Volunteers are welcomed to get involved in all aspects of running a theatre, putting on productions and general upkeep of the community building.

About Save Our Theatres

In villages, towns and cities across the country, theatres are at the heart of their community. Places to come together, to be inspired and be entertained. Theatres are where our best-loved actors learn their craft and thousands of others learn valuable skills. 

But we risk losing this forever.

Theatres saw their main source of income disappear in an instant when they closed in March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

We still don’t know when they will be able to reopen fully. This ongoing uncertainty puts theatres in a perilous situation. The government’s bailout is spread across all cultural organisations and certainly won’t be enough to save all of the UK’s theatres.

Every day theatres are facing the tough decision to make staff redundant and to close their doors until next year. And there is a real risk that those closures could be permanent. 

Without urgent support, we could lose our nation’s amazing theatres. Please help us to make sure our theatres survive this crisis and will be there to be enjoyed by future generations.

#SaveOurTheatres 

Please donate, share this page widely and do what you can to help us to make sure our theatre survive this crisis.

This project successfully funded on 29th December 2020