The upward trend in sales continued throughout February with a 35% increase in audience numbers over the same period last year. We had particular success with Mandela : Long Walk to Freedom, Disney’s Frozen and our first screening from the NT Live, War Horse. Abbamania also played to a capacity house. Our own fundraising Variety Show also contributed over £2,500 to our contingency fund.
This coming weekend, we start our run of films shown as part of the Borderlines Film festival. The festival was covered by the BBC in their Midlands Today program last Friday, and the Regal featured quite heavily.
In March we receive our first tourist coach party with a large group from Ledbury WEA. The group will be enjoying a cream tea, followed by a tour and visit to the museum, a short talk on Art Deco in general and the Regal in particular and they will also be watching a film.
The Trust has now purchased a replacement lighting desk, more suitable to our operation. The money for this was kindly donated by Ken Pollock from the WCC Divisional Fund and by the Blakewell (Spar) Foundation. The Trust has also received a grant from the Kingspan Community Trust to support the MiniCineMonkeys programme with additional active play equipment and funding towards staffing costs for the next two years.
The work by the building contractors to remedy the plaster problems still remains ongoing. The work on repairing the doors and lobby floor in the community centre started today. The repairs to the front doors are still outstanding.
Vandals have caused some damage to one of our display cabinets nearest the bus stop. There may be some delay in repairing this as the local company who produced the cabinets have several months backlog of work.
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