Picture House - Community Cinema Club

Thorne Charity Events is a not for profit group that raises money for local groups by showcasing live music and arts, through our work we have discerned that the one thing our local community wishes it could have back is its Cinema, infact it used to have 3 cinemas, one of which was called 'The Picture House' hence the name of our community cinema club.

We plan to start the club in December this year and our plans are to have membership only screenings, and with the money generated from this we will use any profits to provide free cinema events for local community groups, oap centres, youth clubs and more as and when finances allow us to do so. Due to cost of equipment and venue hire etc we would not start generating a profit for a couple of years as we are making this something that everyone in the area could afford to come along to.

A grant could change all of this and if we are chosen to receive funding, we will immediately be in a position to start providing extra screenings free of charge for people who would otherwise miss out, for the elderly so they have more opportunity to socialise with their peers and so on. The money we are given will be spent entirely on providing these free events and £5,000 would mean that we could do 100 free screenings, which would mean that by the time the money ran out we would be well into our profit making period from our usual screenings and the pattern will be able to continue and we will be entirely self sufficient.

In the area we have 10 Primary Schools, 2 Youth Clubs, 2 full time community centres and care homes numbering in the double figures. At each screening I would expect to have at least 40 people depending on the times of year and from research done with similar groups in nearby areas we expect to average around 60 people per showing, with a members base of over 400 by the end of our 1st year.