The boss of Salford's Lowry theatre has warned it could cost almost £1m to keep it going through the winter because of tripling energy costs. Chief executive Julia Fawcett said energy costs were 'substantially' more than its £860,000 annual Arts Council grant.
She said: “Compared to the previous year we’re projecting that The Lowry’s electricity bill for the year 2022/23 will have increased threefold. To give an idea of the scale of this increase, this amount is substantially more than the figure The Lowry receives annually from Arts Council England’s National Portfolio funding programme."
She said The Lowry operates a "successful, largely self-sufficient model", highly reliant on earned and contributed income (93 per cent) receiving 6.3 per cent total funding from the Arts Council England, Salford City Council and Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
