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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 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. @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 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 Old Vic, The Factory in , 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. detailed advice required relating to a noise seating alterations at Richmond’s Georgian Theatre impact assessment. The advice resulted in the Royal, a replacement theatre for Harpenden, venue being granted the required extension 's new concert hall and studio, and and the additional information obtained amended plans for the new Sadler’s Wells East Neighbouring through us has enabled a new planning theatre. We objected to proposals to demolish application, decision currently pending. the fire-damaged ABC in and to plans developments and to convert Morley's New Pavilion into housing and Agent of Change a function room. We also responded to 120 listed building consultations. Responding to planning applications about Of the 354 planning, pre planning and listed building adjacent developments that could impact applications and appeals, 320 were from England, upon neighbouring theatres is playing an 18 from Scotland, 15 from Wales and 1 from increasingly important part of our planning , and we achieved a 100% record of work. Our concerns about a residential responses submitted within the agreed timeframes. development next to the Lighthouse Centre in Poole resulted in the scheme being redesigned and our suggested conditions were incorporated into the permission for Reading Borough Council a residential until adjacent to the Grand Opera House in York. Improvements were made to Reading Borough Council’s new Local Plan in response to We welcomed the formal adoption of Agent comments made by the Theatres Trust. of Change as a development consideration Because of our written comments and in the revised National Planning Policy representation at public examination the Local Framework. The Agent of Change principle Plan now includes wording which more places the burden of costs and mitigation effectively ensures larger-scale theatre and live on new development, rather than existing performance provision in Reading will continue uses suffering restrictions or even closure into the future, whether at the existing following complaints from new neighbours. Hexagon or an alternative site. It now also We supported the application by Oxford includes additional detail requiring applicants Playhouse for soundproofing works, paid for and the council to work with the Theatres Trust by the neighbouring pub in line with the Agent to ensure any replacement for the Hexagon is of Change principle. designed to meet the needs of audiences and performers. The amended plan is still subject to a final consultation, and we will make a further representation to ensure the protection of theatre provision in Reading. 2Northdown

6 7 Sherman Theatre at night. Photo: Ian Grundy night. Photo: at Sherman Theatre Our achievements Wallace Sharron Photo: & performance

The campaign called for more collaborative creative Campaigning partnerships between local authorities, theatre owners and operators and community groups to protect the theatres on the list, along with more As the nation’s most powerful Theatres at Risk 2019 launch - Bruce Knight, Spilsby Theatre, Paul Dobson, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, sustainable funding to prevent further theatres Sophie Gibson, Empire, Jack Dee, Comedian and Theatres Trust Ambassador, Claire Appleby, Theatres champion for the cause of becoming ‘at risk’ in the future. Media coverage Trust, Louise Stewart, Alexandra Palace and Jon Morgan, Theatres Trust. theatres, we will campaign to included television appearances by Jack Dee on London Live and Trustee on Good secure the future of the UK’s Morning Britain, along with arts, national, regional Consultations Contribution to industry events theatres and to save theatres that and lifestyle press. As part of our campaigning work on behalf of theatres We remain committed to working with our partners we responded to national and regional consultations and contributing to the wider debate on theatres, Beyond the launch event, we have supported are at risk. about culture and planning policy. These included culture and placemaking: Theatres at Risk throughout the year with advice national planning policy in England and Wales; and by raising the profile of their individual causes. Greater London Authority Cultural Government consultations on the Civil Society In recognition of the challenges faced by many of Infrastructure Plan launch Theatres at Risk Strategy; the House of Lords Seaside Towns these theatres in accessing funding for the early Trustee Ann Skippers talked about the vital role The Theatres at Risk Register lists theatre buildings Commission; EU Eco-design legislation proposals; stage concept and viability works and for of planning for culture at the heart of placemaking. across England, Scotland and Wales that are most culture strategies for Scotland, Greater London and organisational support, we have been fundraising for at risk of being lost, but which the Theatres Trust Greater Manchester, and strategic consultations by Society of Theatre Research lecture a Capacity Building Programme. Thanks to support believes have real potential for a sustainable future Arts Council England and Historic England. Architecture Adviser Claire Appleby gave a talk about from Historic England, Swire Charitable Trust and as a working performance space. this year’s Theatres at Risk Register. Pilgrim Trust, we will be able to fund a pilot year of The 2019 Register consists of 31 theatres, including this programme in 2019. UK Theatre Business Resilience Conference three new additions: Theatr Ardudwy, Tottenham Alexandra Palace Director Jon Morgan presented the findings of our Palace Theatre and The Intimate Theatre in Palmers Alexandra Palace Theatre had not been an active joint research with UK Theatre and SOLT about capital Green. Seven theatres were removed from the list Burnley Empire theatre for more than 80 years and when it was spending on theatres. for a mixture of positive and negative reasons. first added to the Theatres at Risk Register in Westminster Media Forum Alexandra Palace and Cryer Theatre in Sutton are With Theatres Trust advice and support, along 2006, the building fabric was deteriorating and Theatres Adviser Tom Stickland talked about both returning to performance use, while Hulme with the National Trust and Theatresearch, it was unsafe to use. It has undergone a six-year supporting grassroots theatres at an event about the Playhouse and Llandudno Grand were judged to no Burnley Empire Limited, a company formed by renovation project, which Theatres Trust has future of the live entertainment sector. the friends group Burnley Empire Theatre Trust, longer be at immediate risk as they are currently supported from early stage advice on the was able to buy Burnley Empire from the Duchy being used for sympathetic purposes. Sadly, the viability study through to helping the fundraising of Lancaster. With ownership in place, the group Secombe also in Sutton and the Workington Opera campaign with various letters of support. can now begin the restoration project, taking an Capital funding research House look unlikely to be saved and the Coronet in The theatre officially reopened to the public incremental approach focusing on making the Elephant & Castle will be demolished. on 1 December 2018 and is currently showing Theatres Trust in conjunction with UK Theatre building wind and water-tight and working We launched the 2019 Register at an event in a mix of one-off events, comedy nights, music and the Society of London Theatre, conducted a towards a longer-term ambition to restore and January at the newly reopened Alexandra Palace. and theatre productions. In light of this positive survey to look at the scale of capital investment reopen the building for the benefit of the local Theatres Trust Ambassador Jack Dee spoke of his development, we were pleased to remove needed across the sector. Nearly 150 theatres community. love for theatre, the Arts Minister Michael Ellis MP Alexandra Palace from the 2019 Theatres responded (about 13% of all active UK theatres) gave a speech about the value of the Theatres Trust at Risk Register. and the results showed that, across those and there was a panel discussion with four Theatres surveyed alone, more than £550m is needed at Risk at various stages of their journeys. over the next five years for capital projects to upgrade and maintain theatres across the UK. These findings formed the basis of a press story in October and we have continued to use the headline figures and more detailed breakdowns in our lobbying and media work since. We will continue to survey the sector to identify trends in capital projects, funding and theatre buildings.

8 9 Our achievements

& performance Theatre. Key Peterborough Ian Grundy Photo:

UK Theatres Small Grants Scheme London Small Theatres Grants Scheme Theatre Improvement Scheme Thanks to the ongoing support of the Andrew Grant giving Theatres Trust is grateful to the Cameron Mackintosh Following a successful pilot scheme, the Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Charles Michael Foundation and Soho Estates for continuing to Wolfson Foundation awarded the Theatres Holloway Charitable Trust, we awarded grants totalling We will provide strategic capital support the London Small Theatres Grants Scheme. Trust £300,000 of funding over three years for £51,500. Across two rounds, we supported 11 theatres Five London theatres each received a grant of £5,000, this new scheme with a different theme each funding to theatres to help them through this scheme with projects including roof supporting the creation new performance spaces and year. In 2018 the theme was ‘Improving Disability repairs, new boilers and heating systems, hearing remain sustainable and adapt various accessibility projects: Access’ and we awarded seven grants (including loops and stair lifts: one grant to a consortium of seven theatres) to future needs. We awarded Omnibus Clapham, Queen’s Hornchurch, Soho Alnwick Playhouse, Chipping Norton Theatre, totalling £101,512: Theatre, The Big House and Tower Theatre in Hackney. 23 grants totalling more than Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, Lyth Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema, Oxford Arts Centre, Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre and £178,000 across three schemes. Playhouse, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Stephen Theatre, Plaza Theatre, Romsey, Poole Lighthouse, Joseph Theatre, The Old Vic, Tyne Theatre and Our grants fund projects that Shoreditch Town Hall, The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Shoreditch Town Hall Opera House, and a consortium of Greater Society Falmouth, Theatr Gwaun and Vivacity Key make an impact to improve Grade II listed Shoreditch Town Hall, one of the Manchester theatres consisting; Bolton Octagon, Theatre, Peterborough. accessibility, viability and grandest Vestry Halls in London, will complete Contact, HOME, Oldham Coliseum, Royal urgent external and internal repairs to the Exchange Theatre, The Lowry and Z-Arts. environmental sustainability North East Tower of its Assembly Hall, the The 2019 round opened in February, focusing on Lyth Arts Centre largest performance area in the respected of theatres. environmental sustainability. cultural space and theatre, thanks to our UK Lyth Arts Centre, a key cultural asset in Small Grants award of £5,000. The works will Caithness, will be able to replace its old prevent water ingress and further storage heaters and install an innovative air deterioration, helping protect the historic Greater Manchester source heat pump, with £5,000 of Theatres building and future theatre use. Trust UK Small Grants funding. The installation theatres consortium of this renewable heating source will make We awarded our 100th ever grant to a the multi-use arts centre, housed in a Victorian consortium of Greater Manchester theatres, school building, more energy efficient, for an innovative collaborative project led ensuring the building's viability and benefiting by HOME. £20,000 was awarded from the visiting artists and local audiences across Theatre Improvement Scheme to purchase northern Scotland. captioning equipment that will be shared by HOME with six other theatres. This will allow D/deaf audiences across Greater Manchester to attend more captioned performances in a greater variety of theatre styles, and see shows at theatres that had not previously offered them. Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists Artists Bodies Young Extraordinary at Lighthouse Poole. Photo: Richard Budd Richard Photo: Lighthouse Poole. at grant celebration, Greater Greater celebration, grant th 100 Manchester consortium of theatres consortium Manchester

10 11 Financial review

Income for the year across both The Theatres Trust The value of The Theatres Trust Charitable and to increase our overall impact. We have The financial statements for The Theatres Trust and The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund (Registered Fund’s investment portfolio increased during the designated £210,000 to restructure the organisation and The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund for the charity No. 274697) was £97,737 higher for the year year such that the market value of the portfolio including additional staffing to deliver improved year ended 31 March 2019 are summarised here. ended 31 March 2019 than in the previous year. This at 31 March 2019 was £940,190. The relative advocacy, marketing and fundraising and to invest Copies of the full audited accounts may be obtained was largely due to increased income from the sale performance of the portfolio was closely aligned in key resources including CRM, Archive and Theatres free from the Theatres Trust. The auditors have of Proprietary seats and other grants and donations. to the general market trend. Database. We have also allocated £125,000 of our given unqualified opinions on the accounts of own resources to match fund any grants we receive both organisations. Resources expended in the year were £27,513 higher In line with our three year strategy for 2018-2021 from Trusts and Foundations against an ambitious than in 2018. Theatre Protection Grants given during we will both invest some of our unrestricted reserves three-year fundraising target. the year were £22,361 lower than in the previous year. and continue to fundraise to deliver new programmes The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund The Theatres Trust 2019 2018 2019 2018 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

Income Income Theatre Rents Receivable 433 433 Covenanted payment from The Theatres Trust 445 418 Sale of Proprietary seats 134 119 Administration charge paid by The Theatres Trust 138 122 Conferences and events 62 49 Historic England Grant 23 30 Interest Receivable - - Other grants and donations received 319 240

Total income 629 601 Other income 105 108 Less Expenditure Total income 1030 918

Administrative expenses 138 123 Less expenditure Conferences and events 40 35 Direct Charitable Expenditure 756 767 Other expenditure 6 25 Costs of generating funds 199 146 Total expenditure 184 183 Total expenditure 955 913

Surplus of income over expenditure 445 418 Surplus of income over expenditure 75 5

Less covenanted payment to The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund (445) (418) Net gains/(losses) from investments 48 (11) Less Taxation - - Net movement in funds 123 (6) Net movement in funds - -

Funds brought forward 1032 1038 Funds brought forward 217 217 Total Funds 1155 1032 Total Funds 217 217

Funds Funds General Fund 220 338 Accumulated fund 67 67 Theatres Protection Fund 106 87 Capital Provision fund 150 150 Other Restricted Funds 35 0 Total Funds 217 217 Organisational Development & Transition Fund 210 210 Match Funding Fund 125 100 Capital Provision Fund 459 297

Total Funds 1155 1032 Our Ambassadors Our supporters

Theatres Trust is grateful to our Ambassadors for their support The many funders, donors, Corporate Supporters, Friends and throughout 2018/19. Our Ambassadors are: Patrons of Theatres Trust are extremely important to our work, giving their time and valuable support. The Trust would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have given their support during 2018/19.

Samira Ahmed David Morrissey Major donations & funders De Matos Ryan Plann Journalist, broadcaster and documentary maker Actor and director Ambassadors Theatre Group Derwent London Purcell Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Drama by Design RISE Gemma Arterton Archives Revealed – The National EM Acoustics Robolights Actress Actor Archives Scoping Grant ETC Royal Central School of Speech Alan Ayckbourn Paul and Fiona Cartwright Everyman and Playhouse and Drama Playwright and theatre director Actress, singer, producer and radio presenter Tim and Heide Eyles Theatres, SeatPlan.com Charitable Trust Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Shaftesbury PLC Siobhan Redmond Historic England Foster Wilson Architects Shanklin Theatre, Isle of Wight Musical theatre star, recording artist and radio Actress Charles Michael Holloway Georgian Theatre Royal, Stage Electrics and TV presenter Tim Rice Charitable Trust Richmond The Society for Theatre Research Pippa Bennett-Warner Author and lyricist J & C Joel Glantre Theatre Projects Consultants Actress Soho Estates Global Design Solutions GDS Theatre Royal & Royal Concert John Simm Swire Charitable Trust GoboPlus Hall Matthew Bourne Actor, director and musician The Mackintosh Foundation Grand Opera House Theatre Royal Bath Choreographer and director Meera Syal The Pilgrim Trust Greenwood Projects Ltd Theatre Royal Newcastle Jo Brand Actress and writer The Tolkien Trust GVA Acuity upon Tyne Comedian Wolfson Foundation Harlequin Floors Theatre Royal Andrew Lloyd Webber Harvard College Library Theatreplan LLP Alexandra Burke Composer, producer and theatre owner Corporate Supporters Haworth Tompkins Torpedo Factory Group Ltd Singer, songwriter and actress 8build Hawthorn Triple E Jack Dee ABTT Hayles & Howe UK Theatre Comedian, actor and writer ADB Stagelight HQ Theatres University of Huddersfield, Aedas Arts Team J&C Joel Drama Department Albany Theatre Trust Integro Unusual Rigging Television presenter and actress Allford Hall Monaghan Morris The Little Theatre Guild Victoria & Albert Museum Photo: Alex Brenner Alex Photo: Allies and Morrison of Great Britain Theatre & Performance Playwright and film-maker Ambassador Theatre Group Locker & Riley (FP) Ltd Collection The Ambassador Theatre LSI Projects Ltd Wakefield Theatre Trust Miranda Hart Artifax LW Theatres Wrightsure Comedy writer and actress Samira Ahmed and Cameron Mackintosh at Conference 18. Arup M Bradbrook Electrical Services Lenny Henry Audio Light Systems Ltd Momentum Consulting Voluntary Group Friends Comedian, actor and writer Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Engineers Ltd Friends of the Royal Hippodrome Bennetts Associates Mousetrap Productions Theatre, Eastbourne Beverley Knight Grand Theatre Trust Ltd & the St Martin's Theatre Actress and singer BuroHappold Nederlander International Ltd Honorary Life Friends Kwame Kwei-Armah Capital Theatres New Mills Art Theatre Susie Astor Actor, playwright, director and broadcaster Charcoalblue LLP New Vic Theatre, Ted Bottle Chauvet Europe Ltd Newcastle-under-Lyme Rob Dickins CBE Jude Law Chichester Festival Theatre Nimax Theatres John Earl Actor Clay Paky SpA Northampton Theatres Trust Ian Grundy

Cameron Mackintosh Trustee Dara Ó Briain, Ambassadors Beverley Knight, Jo Brand Cumbernauld Theatre Trust Ltd Ornate Interiors Charles Holloway Producer and theatre owner and Samira Ahmed, and Trustee Gary Kemp at fundraising event Darlington Hippodrome Philips Entertainment Lighting Jonathan Lane OBE at The .

14 15 Jim Lee John Hamilton Sparks Anne E Starks Diane Clough Diana Le Clercq Johanna Thomson Peter Longman G Hampson Peter Steer Edward Brian Coates Mitchel Lewis Robert Thorne Iain Mackintosh John B Harrop Michael Swanson John Cole Peter Lewis Graham Tubb Sally McGrath Elain Harwood Nick Tant David S Cooper David Lingwood Richard Voase Mark Price Carl Hayhurst Roger Temple Paul S Covell Matthew Lloyd Richard Voyce Rupert Rhymes OBE Tom Healey Robert B Thomas Simon Crick Robert Longthorne Anthony Walker Mhora Samuel Gavin D Henderson CBE Nick Thompson Richard Crumpton Peter Lovell Nicola Walls Michael Sell Michael Holden Mark Thorburn John Dalston Tony Mabbutt Nicolas Walsh Clare U Hope Jane Thornton MBE Terence Davis Sara MacGeagh T J Watson Life Friends Roy Hudd OBE Frances Thorpe Iain Dennis Philip Main Mark White Ian Albery Peter Jay Janet Townend Andrew Devenport Tamara E N Malcolm MBE John Whitton Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE Alun Jones S D Vaughan Jonathan Dicken Michael Mantell Pamela Whitton D W Baker Carsten Jung John Wackett Nicholas Edwards Rachel Marks Robert Wildgust Chris Baldwin Robert C Kelly Diana Walkden Alistair Fair C L Martin Paul Wilkins Peter Baldwin Frank Kelsall Richard K Walton Roderick P Fell Deborah McGhee Nick Williams Peter Bassett Mike Kilburn R L Watson Matthew Finch Ruari McNeill Colin Winslow Roger Beacham John Knight OBE John West Mike Fitzgerald Judith Mellor OBE Alex Wood Keith Bear Sir Eddie Kulukundis OBE Timothy L West CBE Clare Fox Peter Morris Steve Woolley G A C Berenzweig Brian Legge Peter A Wilcox Marc Fuzellier Joe A Mullender David Wright S S Berenzweig John Levitt David Wilmore Craig Gamble Rodney Mylius Sally Yarwood Margaret Berwyn-Jones Margaret Lines Jennifer Wilson Görel Garlick Mike Neale James Bettley Roger Lobb John Wise David Garratt Richmond A Neale We remember those Friends Jennie Bisset Steve Lowe Michael Wood Karin Gartzke Simon Needle who have sadly passed away: Andrzej Blonski Stewart MacKay Daphne Woodrow Michael Gaunt Ian Nichol John C Fields Pamela Bone Hugh Maguire Iain Wotherspoon Brian F Gavin Adrian Nicholas R E Grover Alec Botten David Mayer Benjamin Yeoh Christopher Goacher John Nicholls John D Standen K W Brown M I Metcalfe Paula Gillespie Mark Ockenden Denis Vaughan Richard Burke M V Morgan Individual Friends Steve Green Andrew J Osmond Dame Axel Burrough Trevor Morson Robert Aldous I M Grey Cliff Parkinson D P Campbell Spencer Mort Nick Allen John Griffiths Tom Pate K P Carpenter John Muir Tom Atkins Simon Grigg Ben Payne Barry R Chandler Pamela Newman Jason Barnes Michael Hall Colin Peacock M Charlesworth Richard Newman Anne Basley Saskia Hallam William Hamilton Pearson Jeff Clarke Muriel Nichols Alan Baxter Michael Hamilton Phil Penfold Theo Clarke Richard Norman David Baxter Mark Hammond Mark Pessell John Cliff Jane Ollerton Christopher Bear Simon Hardy Richard Pick W Philip C Cobb Mike Ostler Steven R Beattie R Haselgrove John Plews Ray Cooney OBE Roy William Patten David Beidas David Heath John E Prickett Frank Cox John Peach Marc Bernstein Mike A Higginbottom Richard Purver Roger Crowther John Peto Graham Bickley John Higgins Joe Reader Pravina Dalton Michael Platt Simon Birchall Historic Environment Scotland Alan Rennie R S Derham Francis Price David Blyth Library Pete Richards Colin Draper Barry Pritchard Ruth Bowley Edward Howson Sarah Richards David Drummond Chris Reece Michael Breeze Neil Inker Anne Riches OBE Ruth Eastwood W Noel Rees Luke Brewster Stephen Inston Tim Ronalds Michael Elson Alic K Robertson Suzie Bridges Rhiannon Jepson Daniel Rose Mick Escott E H Robertson Jonathan Brown Brian Johnson Pat Russell Keith Evans MVO G Romanowksi Natasha Brown Stephen Jones Peter Ruthven Hall Lily Fine Joseph S Rosenberg Stephen Browning Michelle Jones James Sargant Roger Fox Bruce Rowling Liz Bury Kamal Kharrazi William T R Scott Leonard James Gazzard Lady Sainsbury of Turville Joanna Bussell David W Kidd Margaret Shewring Gerald Glover Edward Shamash Alan Butland Richard King David E Smith Ronald G Grant Clive Sherling Brian Capron J R King Stanley Smithson Sally Greene OBE Rob Shorland-Ball Jacqueline Capron Noel Kirby Mark Soulsby Richard Greenwood R J C Shuttleworth Gareth Carr Christian John Knighton Jon Sowden Donald Gulliver Gerald Smith Nicholas Charlesworth Keith Laidler David Spink Mitchell J Guthman J O Smith David Clarke Cara Lancaster Michael Stubbs

16 17 Trustees Staff

Tim Eyles Chair Peter Roberts Jon Morgan Director Chair of The Jerwood Charitable Foundation Theatre industry professional. Peter stepped Claire Appleby Architecture Adviser and of the Royal Society of Arts, and former down as a Trustee in January 2019 Managing Partner at Taylor Wessing Kate Bierman Development Director Ann Skippers Richard Baldwin Chartered town planner and currently Kate Carmichael Communications Coordinator Chartered quantity surveyor and currently a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School Tom Clarke National Planning Adviser Head of Development at Derwent London of Planning, UCL Justine Harvey Marketing & Communications Manager David Blyth Anna Stapleton Theatre and arts entertainment management Arts management professional Marie Lane Resource Centre Manager professional and currently Chair of the Alice Montgomery Administration Assistant Marina Theatre Trust in Lowestoft Special Advisers Ashish Shah Finance Manager Pam Bone John Earl Independent adviser for the cultural industries Tom Stickland Theatres Adviser Jonathan Lane Dara Ó Briain Sarah Walsh General Manager Comedian and television presenter Peter J Wilson

Paul Cartwright Duty Managers Chartered accountant and private equity professional Georgina Evelyn Paddy Dillon Janet Cantrill Theatre architect, conservationist, writer Josh Harper and broadcaster Muchwezi Wilkins Ruth Eastwood Theatre management professional, currently CEO of Grand Theatre in Blackpool Consultants David Ian Mark Price Heritage Consultant Leading producer of live large-scale theatrical entertainment Nicky Rowland Sponsorship and Advertising Consultant Richard Johnston Theatre management professional, currently Volunteers Chief Executive of Delfont Mackintosh Theatres Ian Grundy Gary Kemp Musician and actor Sally McGrath Simon Ricketts Planning solicitor and founding partner of planning law firm Town Legal LLP

18 19 Protecting theatres for everyone

In 2018/19

More than 5 million people attended theatres benefitting from the 5million Theatres Trust’s support

Advice 120 We provided specialist, tailored advice to 120 theatre organisations

Planning 354 We commented on 354 planning and listed building applications

Planning 142 We commented on 142 local planning documents

Grants £178k Our Theatres Protection Fund has awarded £178,012 to theatres across the UK 20