From next month, The Ticket Bank will see unsold theatre, comedy and dance tickets made available to people.
Thousands of unsold tickets to cultural events including theatre, comedy and dance, will be made freely available to people struggling with the cost of living.
The idea was the brainchild of Chris Sonnex, the artistic director of Cardboard Citizens, which makes theatre for people with lived experience of poverty.He said experiencing arts and culture has a "massive effect" on health and wellbeing, but that "whole rafts of people are being excluded from that because of ticket prices".
The Almeida Theatre, Barbican, Bush Theatre, Gate Theatre, The National Theatre, Roundhouse and Tara Theatre have signed up to the The Ticket Bank. Charities signed up to the scheme will receive access codes that they distribute to users, who can then book tickets on The Ticket Bank's website. People can either choose to pay nothing or 'donate-what-you-can'.Caroline McCormick, chair of the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation, said the response from arts institutions had been "overwhelming".She said, "Everybody's seen the value, everyone wants to make it work.
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