A Staffordshire town's new theatre project has received a welcome boost from HS2.
The Crown Wharf Theatre, in Stone, has been awarded £75,000 from HS2's Community and Environment Fund which has been created to help communities that are demonstrably disrupted by the construction of HS2 phase one and phase 2a from London to the West Midlands.
The cash will go towards the building of a new auditorium and community space at the former Joule's Brewery site and will specifically be used to enhance accessibility, buy a lighting grid, timber flooring, sound equipment and fund acoustic treatments.
