#SaveOurTheatres - Ludlow's rural Arts Centre

Aim

After a very hard 2 years - a building project overrun and the pandemic - we are now desperate to reopen our doors for our audiences.

Ludlow Assembly Rooms is part of a national initiative launched by Theatres Trust to help us raise funds via a virtual bucket shake this festive season. Rural venues, such as ours, are so important to ensure everyone can access the arts.  We are a community organisation, run by and for the community with a staff team of 7 and over 150 volunteers.  

Please help us keep the heart of Ludlow beating and the arts alive in the countryside.

Our Virtual Bucket Shake

Every year we hold a bucket shake at events which raises us over £2,000 in 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 a traditional bucket collection. This is why we’d like to invite you to take part in a Virtual Bucket Collection this festive season.

Your donations will be used to help us purchase a new digital projector - our old one having died - an essential piece of equipment to allow us to show all the wonderful live streams of plays, opera, ballets to our rural audience.

About Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Ludlow Assembly Rooms keeps the arts alive in a very rural part of England - poor transport and 25 miles from any equivalent alternative.  We are a registered charity, run by the community for the community with a very small staff team and over 150 volunteers.  We punch well above our weight, attracting performers and performances of high quality and covering all genres.  A Weekend of Words is our local literature festival and a Weekend of Theatre provides a wide mix of live acts for people of all ages.  During our closure, we have been much missed.

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 1st January 2021