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THEATRES and a museum have received almost £100,000 to support their reopening after lockdown. Worthing Theatres and Museum (WTM), which includes the Connaught Theatre and Cinema, the Pavilion Theatre and Assembly Hall in the town, was granted £98,398 from the second round of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. They were among more than 2,700 organisations nationally to receive nearly £400 million in the latest round of grants and loans from the £1.57 billion funding pot, to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover. The money will support the safe reopening of...

DO you know someone who has made a difference to your community during the pandemic? A unique photography exhibition will celebrate lockdown heroes with portraits filling the windows of the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing. Worthing Theatres and Museum is asking the public from across Sussex to submit photographs of the people who have impacted their lives during Covid-19, along with a short description of why the person matters to them or made a difference to the community. Selected submissions will be included in the We Are Worthing exhibition at the Pavilion Theatre and as part of an o...

Worthing's Connaught Theatre In just over seven weeks more than 300 donors contributed to achieving the target for the Save Worthing Theatres and Museum initiative as part of the Theatres Trust nationwide #SaveOurTheatres campaign. Amanda O’Reilly, CEO, Worthing Theatres and Museum, said: “The national campaign was designed to raise valuable funds to support theatres throughout the country. “Worthing Theatres and Museum was one of the most recent to sign up for the scheme and set itself an ambitious fundraising target of £10,000. Today, exceeding that target, with over a week remainin...