Acting For Others Announce Initial Participants For The 15th Annual Bucket Collection

Today, theatrical charity Acting for Others announces initial participants in its 15th annual bucket collection. For two weeks, beginning today, 22 October, bucket collections will be held at the end of performances in almost every theatre across London and throughout the whole of the UK.

In 2017 over £250,000 was raised with 95 theatres across the UK taking part. This year over 100 UK theatres will be taking part, including last year's Golden Bucket Award-winners - the company of Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre and The Wipers Times at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.

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 all theatre workers in times of need. 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, LW Theatres, 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 Charities Fund, International Performers' Aid Trust, King George V Fund for Actors and Actresses, Ralph and Meriel Richardson Foundation, Dance Professionals Fund, The Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund, The Royal Theatrical Fund, Theatre Chaplaincy UK and The Theatrical Guild.

Initial participating theatres:

Adelphi Theatre

Alban Arena

Aldwych Theatre

Alhambra Theatre

Apollo Theatre

Apollo Victoria Theatre

Arts Theatre

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

Barbican

Birmingham Hippodrome

Blackpool Opera House

Bristol Hippodrome

Buxton Opera House

Camberley Theatre

Cambridge Theatre

Charing Cross Theatre

Churchill Theatre Bromley

Criterion Theatre

Dominion Theatre

Duchess Theatre

Duke of York's Theatre

Dundee Repertory Theatre

Edinburgh Playhouse

Floral Pavilion Theatre

Fortune Theatre

Gielgud Theatre

Grand Theatre & Opera House Leeds

Harold Pinter Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre

Kings Theatre Glasgow

Leas Cliff Hall

Lichfield Garrick

Liverpool Empire

Lyceum Theatre London

Mayflower Theatre

Menier Chocolate Factory

Mill at Sonning Theatre

New Theatre Cardiff

New Theatre Oxford

New Wimbledon Theatre

Norwich Theatre Royal

Novello Theatre

Old Red Lion

Palace Theatre

Phoenix Theatre

Piccadilly Theatre

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Prince Edward Theatre

Prince of Wales Theatre

Queen's Theatre

Royal Shakespeare Company

Regent Theatre & Victoria Hall

Richmond Theatre

Salisbury Playhouse

Savoy Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe

Sheffield Theatres

St Martin's Theatre

Sunderland Empire

Theatre Cafe

Theatre Royal Brighton

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Trafalgar Studios

Vaudeville Theatre

Victoria Hall

Watermill Theatre

Wycombe Swan

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre