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Annual Report 2019 April 2018– March 2019 "Theatres Trust does vital work ensuring communities across the UK have wonderful theatres where they can enjoy live performance." Alexandra Burke Theatres Trust Ambassador Theatres Trust Chair & Director’s report 42nd Annual Report Period ended 31 March 2019 We champion the future of live This year was the first year of the Theatres Trust’s We are grateful to the trustees who freely give up performance by protecting and new three-year strategy for 2018-21. The primary their valuable time to offer their expertise in support Theatres Trust is the national supporting excellent theatre buildings aim of the strategy is to increase our impact of the Trust’s work and have also supported and advisory public body for theatres. donated to our fundraising. Finally, we would like to which meet the needs of their in promoting and protecting all theatres across We believe that current and future the UK. We will achieve this by delivering focused express our thanks and gratitude to the staff team communities. We do this by providing generations should have access additional support to the sector, strengthening who have worked incredibly hard to deliver the advice on the design, planning, our advocacy through increased profile and Trust’s ambitious programme this year. to good quality theatre buildings engagement with key stakeholders, and raising development and sustainability Communities, audiences and artists care about our where they can be inspired by, additional funds to support new programmes of theatres, campaigning on behalf nation’s theatre buildings as much as those of us and enjoy, live performance. and increased grant giving. of theatres old and new and offering who own or manage them. Our ambition, working financial assistance through grants. Much of the focus of the year has been on putting with the fantastic board and staff team at Theatres in place the resources and the team needed to Trust and with our Ambassadors, volunteers, deliver these ambitious goals, but we have also supporters and wider networks, is to further nurture already seen some key indicators of improved and harness that passion to advocate for proper performance. investment in and protection of our theatres, keeping theatre alive at the heart of communities. Chair & Director’s report 3 Across the year over 5 million people attended theatres benefitting from the Theatres Trust’s Our purposes & activities 4 support; consultation by local authorities on theatre Tim Eyles Jon Morgan plans has increased by 54% and on local plans Chair Director Our achievements & performance 5 by 18%; Theatres Trust has delivered and contributed to a number of key thought leadership events and Financial review 12 published important research on the future capital needs of theatres; we have also recruited 25 high Our Ambassadors 14 profile Ambassadors from across the theatre sector to help promote our work, attracted increased press Our Supporters 15 and online engagement and raised an additional £170,000 in awards and pledges to support new Our Trustees & staff 18 activity programmes in 2019/20. Our impact 20 We are extremely grateful to our many dedicated funders, donors, sponsors, Corporate Supporters and Friends, as well as new supporters this year, whose generosity enables us to achieve our Theatres Trust ambition to deliver much-needed additional support The National Advisory Body for Theatres to the sector, both through our advice service and Protecting theatres for everyone through grant giving. Incorporating the Annual Report We would also like to thank our new Ambassadors. of The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund With their help, we made a film about our work, Registered Charity No: 274697 which was first screened at a fundraising event at 22 Charing Cross Road the London Palladium in October. Our Ambassadors London WC2H 0QL have also supported us by attending and speaking T 020 7836 8591 at Theatres Trust events, meeting our Patrons, F 020 7836 3302 donors and funders and amplifying our messages [email protected] theatrestrust.org.uk on social media. Twitter @theatrestrust Front cover: Alexandra Palace Theatre. Photo by Lloyd Winters. Our impact photos by Ian Grundy Design by Derek Man 2 3 Our purposes Our achievements & activities & performance Fibrous Plaster Ceiling Research The purposes of Review of 2018/19 We continued our research partnership with Historic The Theatres Trust Advice & England to identify best practice guidance for the We are reporting our work in 2018/19 against our inspection, maintenance and repair of fibrous plaster three main aims, as follows: Charitable Fund are: ceilings. The report, which was finalised in February Planning and has now been published (May 2019), provides a ‘To promote the advancement and improvement practical reference point for professionals involved of general education in relation to all aspects Advice & Planning We will provide expert advice in repairing historic buildings as well as theatre of the dramatic arts and the development on planning and development. owners and operators of Victorian and Edwardian of public appreciation of such arts, particularly We will provide the expert advice needed theatres and music halls. by promoting the maintenance, use and better to enable theatres to be created, retained ABTT Technical Standards for Places protection of theatres and places of entertainment and adapted for live performance and to of Entertainment for the benefit of the nation by all charitable means.’ meet the changing needs of their communities. Advice Theatres Trust is part of the Standing Committee led The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund (Registered by the ABTT that helps make improvements in Charity No: 27469) was established in 1977 to One-to-one expert advice building, maintaining, managing and operating support and deliver the work of the Theatres Trust, Over 2018/19, we provided advice to 120 different places of entertainment, in recognition that which was established in 1976 by Act of Parliament. Campaigning theatres (excluding those which were subject to self-regulation is most effective for the theatre The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport planning applications). Many of those theatres were industry. A new version of the technical standards appoints the 15 trustees of the Theatres Trust. As the nation’s most powerful champion provided advice on an ongoing basis throughout the publication, known commonly as ‘the yellow book’ for the cause of theatres, we will campaign year. was published in September with the Theatres Trust They provide the Trust with influence and are to secure the future of the UK’s theatres and accredited as co-contributors. recognised as leaders in their fields. Trustees sit This included advice to 25 theatres/theatre groups to save theatres that are at risk. on the councils of both the Theatres Trust and which were on the Theatres at Risk Register, and Conference 18: Adapt & Thrive The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund and are advice to 95 other theatres/theatre groups, mainly Our conference in October at the Lyric responsible for governance of both organisations. around viability (including fundraising) and capital Hammersmith looked at how changing artistic, They meet quarterly and guide the strategic works. business and operating models in the theatre sector direction of the Trust’s work, which is delivered Grant giving impact how we build, adapt and run theatres. It was Promoting our advice service through its staff team. our most attended conference to date and included We will provide strategic capital funding to We have produced a new leaflet that outlines the a line-up of speakers from theatre operators, local theatres to help them remain sustainable and services we offer to local authorities, theatre owners authorities and architects. Theatre case studies adapt to future needs. and operators, and campaign groups. Work began included Bristol Old Vic, The Factory in Manchester, on producing a new series of advice notes, which Citizens Theatre and Stockton Globe. A conference aim to answer some of the most frequent questions highlight was Cameron Mackintosh in conversation we receive on capital projects, design, heritage, with fellow Theatres Trust Ambassador Samira organisational set-up and planning. Ahmed. Advisory Reviews Advisory Reviews provide an opportunity for theatres undergoing capital projects to receive input at key points in the life of the project from a panel of expert practitioners brought together by the Theatres Trust. While no Advisory Reviews took place in this financial year, work began in early 2019 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane based on the theatre’s earlier Advisory Review. Hammersmith. Photo: Alex Brenner Alex Hammersmith. Photo: Theatres Trust Conference 2018, Lyric Lyric 2018, Conference Trust Theatres 4 The Big House pre-vis Local Plans and Planning Policy 2Northdown venue Theatres Trust received 442 local plan Planning consultations between 1 April 2018 and 31 March While trying to negotiate extended hours this 2019 and responded to 142 of these to encourage 100-capacity venue in Kings Cross realised that As a statutory consultee, the Theatres Trust’s local authorities to include the protection and its planning conditions and licencing hours planning advice aims to safeguard theatre use enhancement of cultural facilities in their planning were not aligned and it was operating in breach and to ensure theatre buildings are fit for purpose. policies. These include local plans, development management policies, area action plans, of its planning conditions. We were able to We responded to 196 planning applications, supplementary planning documents, and help 2Northdown understand the information 18 pre-applications and 5 appeals in 2018/19 community infrastructure levy consultations. and processes that were required to untangle – this is an increase of 77 on 2017/18. These included The Trust also responded to six neighbourhood the situation and to provide access to the proposals for the refurbishment of Paisley Town Hall, plan consultations.