In 2019 we launched an appeal across the trade union movement to keep the company on the road. In solidarity, 86 union branches, trades councils, regional and national unions donated a total of £20,200. This response was absolutely brilliant and enabled us to employ a part-time administrator, buy some much-needed new equipment, keep our aging tour bus on the road for another year, and subsidise a substantial number of performances along the way!
In a funding environment ever more hostile to progressive and socialist organisations, we still need to raise £25,000 this year to cover essential core costs, and also to employ a part-time tour organiser to help us extend our touring base and reach wider audiences.
We are therefore asking supporters to commit to a regular annual donation, no matter how small, either through a Standing Order or through a direct repeat request from us in 12 months’ time.
Your support would enable us not only to continue our long-standing solidarity work, but also get our pro-trade union, anti-exploitation campaigning shows out to even wider audiences. It would also give us the capacity to develop and train a new, younger layer of political, cultural activitists to support the many Trade Union and community struggles that still lie ahead.
If you would like to join the growing number of trade unions and trades councils who are making a regular donation to help meet Banner’s core costs, please contact Stuart
by email at: mailout@bannertheatre.co.uk
or by phone on: 07891 701133
Alternatively, or in addition to a cash donation, do consider purchasing one of our fantastic CDs, DVDs or songbooks. They are a wonderful souvenir, and make an ideal gift.
See the Shop page for detail.
Thank you.
Please make cheques payable to ‘Banner Theatre Company Ltd’ and post to:
Banner Theatre, c/o Unit 1, Izons Industrial Estate, Oldbury Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands B70 9BS
BACS payments: Banner Theatre Company Ltd / Sort code: 40-11-17 / Account no: 31161334
We are very grateful to have received financial support from the following trade unions and trade union councils in 2019:
National
Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
UNITE the Union
Transport & Salaried Staff Association (TSSA)
Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BAFWU)
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen (ASLEF)
The Communications Union (CWU)
Union of Shop, Distributive & Allied Workers (USDAW)
Social Workers Union (SWU)
Prospect
Professional Footballers Association (PFA)
Regional & local branches
UNITE West Midlands Region
UNITE South East Region
UNITE Tom Mann Branch
UNITE Nottingham University Branch
UNITE Milton Keynes Branch
UNITE Chorley Branch
UNITE Doncaster Branch
UNITE Sheffield East Branch
UNITE Tyneside Electrical Engineering & Electronics Sectoral Branch
UNITE Huddersfield Branch
UNITE Newcastle University Branch
UNITE Hull Branch
UNITE West Yorks Retail Logistics Branch
UNITE Liverpool Construction Branch
UNITE Nottinghamshire Health Branch
Greater Manchester UNITE Community Branch
UNITE Durham RTC NE Branch
UNITE Birmingham South Branch
UNITE Manchester Central Branch
UNITE Bolton & District Branch
UNITE South Yorks Retired Members Branch
UNITE Preston Branch
UNITE NE/5 Leeds, Wakefield, York Branch
UNITE Burnley Branch
UNITE NW 6/522 Branch
UNITE Community Nottingham Branch
UNITE Community Huddersfield Branch
UNITE Rolls Royce Aerostaff Derby Branch
UNITE Merseyside Area Civil Engineering Branch
UNITE Yorks & Humberside Energy & Utilities Branch
UNITE NW/64 BEA Systems Branch
UNITE Fylde Coast
UNITE Scunthorpe NE/GEO/5 Branch
UNITE Leicestershire Retired Members
UNITE Landrover WM 7686 Branch
UNITE LE/2116 Branch
UNITE Darwin 236
UNITE LE/1860 Branch
UNITE Portsmouth Composite SE/218 Branch
UNITE LE Fenland Community Branch
GMB WM & Birmingham Region
GMB Yorks & North Derbyshire Region
GMB Southern Region
GMB Barking & Dagenham Branch
GMB Cambridge 2 Branch
GMB Barking Shopstewards
GMB North West London Branch
GMB Harlow Gas H20 Branch
GMB Luton Branch
UNISON NW Region
UNISON Eastern Region
UNISON Warrington United Utilities Branch
UNISON Manchester Branch
UNISON Burnley 06/ Branch
UNISON Knowsley Branch
UNISON Scottish Health Branch
UNISON Lothian Health Branch
UNISON Lanarkshire Health Branch
UNISON National Grid
UNISON St Helens Knowsely Health Branch
Greater Manchester Mental Health UNISON Branch
UNISON Napier University Branch
UNISON Glasgow City Branch
UNISON Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Community Health Branch
UNISON City of Wolverhampton Local Gov Branch
Nottingham Ex & Retired Miners Branch
UCU University of Coventry Branch
Musicians Union, Midlands Region
Nottingham NUJ Branch
TSSA West Midlands
Nottinghamshire NEU Division
TUC & Trades Union Councils
Barnsley Trades Union Council
Colchester Trades Union Council
TUC, London, East & South East
Ipswich & District Trades Union Council
Wisbech, March & District TUC