Acting For Others Announce Initial Participants For 14th Annual Bucket Collection

Today, theatrical charity Acting for Others announces initial participants in its 14th annual bucket collection. For two weeks, beginning 16 October, bucket collections will be held at the end of performances in almost every theatre across London and throughout the whole of the UK. Last year over £225,000 was raised with over 80 theatres across the UK taking part. Winning the 'Golden Bucket' Award, for most money raised, at the inaugural Acting for Others presidential awards earlier in the year, hosted by Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith,- raising over £40,000, was the cast of Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Initial cast and theatres taking part this year include Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre, Flashdance at Liverpool Empire and The Lie at Menier Chocolate Factory.

All donations go to Acting for Others, an umbrella organisation for 15 theatrical charities which use the funds raised to offer emotional and financial support to any theatre workers who have fallen on hard times through illness, injury or circumstance. These are the only theatre collections endorsed in London by Society of London Theatre and nationally by UK Theatre, and supported by all the leading theatre groups including Ambassadors Theatre Group, Delfont Mackintosh Theatre, Nimax, Really Useful Group, Bill Kenwright Ltd as well as virtually every major grant-aided company and commercial producers.

The Acting for Others charities are Actor's Children's Trust, Dancers' Career Development, Denville Hall, Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, Equity Charitable Trust, Evelyn Norris Trust, Grand Order of Water Rats, International Performers' Aid Trust, King George V Fund for Actors and Actresses, Ralph and, Meriel Richardson Foundation, Dancer Professional Fund, The Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund, The Royal Theatrical Fund, Theatre Chaplaincy UK and The Theatrical Guild.

Initial participating theatres:

Adelphi Theatre

Ambassadors Theatre

Anvil Arts

Apollo Victoria Theatre

Birmingham Hippodrome

Blackpool Opera House

Bristol Hippodrome

Charing Cross Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre

Citizens Theatre

Criterion Theatre

De Montfort Hall

Devonshire Park Theatre

Dominion Theatre

Duchess Theatre

Duke of York's Theatre

Dukes Theatre Lancaster

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Edinburgh Playhouse

Finborough Theatre

Fortune Theatre

Gielgud Theatre

Grand Opera House York

Harold Pinter Theatre

Hawth

Her Majesty's Theatre

Hull Truck Theatre

Kings Theatre Glasgow

Leas Cliff Hall Folkestone

Lichfield Garrick

Liverpool Empire

Manchester Opera House

Menier Chocolate Factory

Mill at Sonning Theatre

Milton Keynes Theatre

New Alexandra Theatre

New Theatre Cardiff

New Victoria Theatre (Woking)

New Wimbledon Theatre

Norwich Theatre Royal

Palace Theatre - Manchester

Pavilion Theatre Rhyl

Phoenix Theatre

Piccadilly Theatre

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Playhouse Theatre - London

Prince Edward Theatre

Prince of Wales Theatre

Queen's London

Regent Theatre (Stoke on Trent)

Richmond Theatre

Royal Opera House

Salisbury Playhouse

Savoy Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe

Sheffield Theatres

Sherman Cymru

Southport Theatre

St Martin's Theatre

Sunderland Empire

Theatre Royal & Concert Hall Nottingham

Theatre Royal Brighton

Theatre Royal York

Trafalgar Studios

Victoria Hall, Stoke on Trent

Wolverhampton Grand

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

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