Acting for Others Announce 14th Annual Bucket Collection

Participating Theatres for Annual Fundraiser Announced


Theatrical charity Acting for Others has announced the initial participants in its 14th annual bucket collection. For two weeks from the 16th October, bucket collections will be held at the end of performances in almost every theatre across London, and throughout the UK. Last year over £225,000 was raised with over 80 theatres across the UK taking part. The winner of 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.

Initial participating theatres are as below:

  • 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
  • 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 

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 the 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. 

Support this worthy cause this October when you see your next show!