Regal Trust Report Oct 2015

Regal Trust Report Oct 2015

Attendance figures

Oct 2012 1293 patrons

Oct 2013 1010 patrons

Oct 2014  1247 patrons

Oct 2015  1323  patrons

A better month overall with only two films making a loss and one live show cancelled due to low ticket sales.  Unusually we were able to benefit from this by scheduling a film that we have missed and this proved to be very successful.

The live Shakespeare production of Much ado about nothing also proved more successful than we had expected, with reasonable audiences for all the performances.

Two of this month’s broadcasts were headlined by household names.  David Suchard in The Importance of being earnest and Benedict Cumberbatch playing Macbeth.  Both were successful, but numbers were slightly down on expectation.  Tony Stockwell also had a disappointing audience of about 50% of his previous visit.

The sales for the Pantomime are doing well and reacted immediately to our large mailshot.  A number of the performances have already sold more than 50% of the available tickets.  We are hoping to appear in next weekend’s Mail on Sunday in their top 100 pantomimes. We also hope that our new look website will launch this week.  As more than 50% of people now look at our website using a tablet or phone, it has been optimised for this growth area.

To address the slightly disappointing audiences of late we are doubling our print run of brochures and having them delivered by a distribution company in Ludlow, Leominster and most of Tenbury.  We will then ask our volunteers to concentrate their efforts in the area’s not being covered.

We have completed the installation of the new “clean power” circuits for the sound system, and have almost completed the installation of the sound circuits.  This should enable us to support smaller shows with our PA system without the background hum & crackle.

The replacement function room fire escape doors have now been replaced making that end of the building more secure.

We have completed the installation of a heat curtain in the box office, which along with the additional radiator should mean that this winter the cashiers can work without having to resort to additional outdoor clothing.  

The application for grant aid to support the internal renovation of the function room has now been submitted.  Hopefully this will be successful as yet again this month we have had random flooding events in the function room toilets, but still cannot ascertain where the problem is.