Thursday, 10 March 2011

Help Preston Against Cuts Save The Guild Hall

Just received an important message from Andy Birchall of Preston Against Cuts, the group are looking for more volunteers to help give out leaflets and get showgoers to sign petitions, to help build the campaign to save Preston Guild Hall:

Stop Cuts to the Guild Hall and Charter Theatre


Saturday 12th March 6.30pm.

We have around 6 volunteers so far who are going to be outside the Guild Hall entrance at 6.30pm Saturday evening handing out leaflets and petitioning those entering.

We believe that this could be the first step toward privatisation of this facility, so instead of having a Vision to protect of cultural centre at the heart of Preston the Council are running it down.

Our resistance is about Bread and Roses and we deserve both.

We look forward to seeing you and may be you will join us for a drink afterwards.

Andy Birchall

Preston Against Cuts Coordinator

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

But why not privatise it? It's not like a public utility such as water, gas, public transport or trains. I doubt it's performances are subsidised in order to make it affordable to locals. The council clearly can't run it properly because they're incompetent and because their small town minded leader thinks it's a "village hall". I don't see the problem with letting the private sector run this building?