A LONG-SERVING Basingstoke theatre volunteer has said the council’s decision to cut funding for the Anvil Arts could be an opportunity to breathe new life into the historic Haymarket theatre.
Hannah Williams, who was marketing officer at the Haymarket Theatre for ten years and remains a volunteer for the Market Chambers Performers Together organisation, told The Gazette she would like to see the £400,000 cut from Anvil Arts used to reinstate the autonomy of the Wote Street venue.
Talking about the combining of the venues under the one umbrella in 2007, she said: “The council had this idea in which they decided to give a pot of money to Anvil Arts. It was a good idea to them at the time, but I had misgivings at the start.