The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon: Fund Raising

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Fund Raising

Raise The Roof | The Curzon Lottery | Gift Aid Donations
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Can you help? Could you organise an event?
Perhaps you belong to a group or organisation who could hold an event to raise funds for the Curzon Community Cinema. If you would like to discuss this, or have any ideas you think we ought to hear, please contact Hilary Neal, our Fundraising Director on fundraising@curzon.org.uk or via the cinema.

‘Raise the Roof’ fundraising campaign
to raise £170,000 for restoration of the roof.

The new campaign was launched at the Curzon’s Open Day on Sunday 23rd April, which marked the 94th Birthday of a cinema that is believed to be the oldest purpose-built, continuously operated cinema in the world.

One of the Curzon’s celebrity Patrons, film and stage actor Alan Rickman, is fronting the campaign, which aims to achieve the fundraising target so that roof restoration work can be completed during 2007. Although Alan Rickman was unable to be at the Curzon Open Day because of filming commitments, he made an appeal to the local community to support the fundraising campaign, by saying “The Curzon is such a unique community facility. Please help to preserve it for future generations.”

Curzon Vice-Chair and Director of Fundraising, Hilary Neal said, “We are delighted that Alan has agreed to support our first major fundraising campaign. We need the whole community to get behind this appeal and we are confident that such is the love and support for The Curzon from local people, that the campaign will be a huge success.

“This campaign is vital, as the roof is in a very poor state and is deteriorating rapidly. This deterioration has to be arrested to prevent further damage to the building fabric and to enable the internal restoration phases to happen.”

There are three main ways that people can make donations to support the campaign.

Firstly, there are individual ‘Tile Postcards’ that supporters can purchase from the cinema Box Office when they come to see a film. These are only £1 each, and if everyone who sees a film at The Curzon over the next year buys one ‘tile’ this would raise nearly one third of the fundraising target.
Secondly people can sponsor a ‘Stack of Tiles’ at £5 per stack, or in multiples of £5.
Thirdly, for those that can afford a regular commitment, Roof Tile Covenants are available that involve a monthly covenant payment to The Curzon by standing order – from £5 per month upwards.

Tile postcards and the tiles sponsorship and covenant leaflets can be obtained form the Curzon Box Office, or downloaded here:

Download
Tile Sponsorship leaflet...
(558 kb)

Download
Tile Covenant form...
(575 kb)

See the "Raise the Roof Hall of Fame...

The Curzon Lottery

On 21st April 2001, The Curzon Cinema launched its very own Lottery, with a
DAILY top prize of £10,000!
The lottery is just one of a range of ways which Curzon supporters can use to help in reaching our fundraising target of £700,000 in matched funding towards our Restoration Project.

This is part of a national scheme run by The Great Weather Lottery, further details are avaliable from their web site.

All you have to do is choose your six numbers (each one from 0 to 9) and they are matched in sequence against the temperatures for six worldwide destinations
(last digit, temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit: e.g. a temperature of "29" would produce a winning number "9").
Three correct numbers wins you £2,
four numbers wins £20,
five numbers wins £200,
and matching all six numbers wins £10,000.

December 2004: we had a £10,000 winner...

How do I start?

sign up online...
or
complete, print and post an application form...
or
collect a leaflet from The Curzon Box Office.

The key aspects of this Lottery are:

The chance to win £10,000 every weekday.
Only costs £1 per week (that's 20p per entry)
The odds of winning are considerably better than the National Lottery!
Winners notified automatically by post.
Players can also check results at www.theweatherlottery.com
or by ringing 0113 203 1300, or by checking in the Daily Telegraph.
No messy scratchcards.
No cash handling, as everything is sorted out by Standing Order.
Entry open to everyone over 18 & and not just Curzon supporters.

Out of every £1 line entered, the Curzon will receive 35p, with 45p going in prizes and the remaining 20p in administration. All the prize money is held in trust, and prizes are guaranteed by Lloyds of London.

So, if you fancy the chance of winning yourself a tidy little sum, and helping out the Curzon's restoration efforts at the same time why not have a go - it's dead easy to enter.

For further details about the lottery scheme please contact Hilary Neal, our Fundraising Director on fundraising@curzon.org.uk or via the cinema.

Gift Aid donations

The "Gift Aid" system has now replaced the "Charitable Deed of Covenant".

What is a "Gift Aid donation" ?

This is a declaration you make when you give a one-off donation or wish to make regular payments to the charity. Gift Aid donations will help us pay for further minor improvements to the theatre but most importantly will help us build up our reserves to be used as 'matched funding' against a successful Lottery grant for the restoration and refurbishment of this unique theatre.

It's simple. For very £1 you donate to the Curzon Cinema, the Cinema can claim a further 28p back from the Inland Revenue via the GIFT AID scheme.

Think it sounds to good to be true? We did as well, but there's no catch!
Just imagine how much quicker we could achieve our fundraising total with an extra 28p for every £1 you give! That's 28% quicker!
Simply download a form (below) or ask for a GIFT AID declaration when you donate to the cinema.
Once you've signed a GIFT AID declaration, the Curzon will be able to claim back the tax benefit on any sums that you donated.
All we will ask for is your name and address, the charity's name, a description of donations to which the declaration relates (i.e. Restoration work) and a declaration that the donations are to be treated as Gift Aid donations. You must pay an amount of income tax and/or capital gains tax equal to the tax deducted from your donations.

Other charities have found GIFT AID to be very helpful……..

"Being able to ask people to gift aid their donations has greatly increased our income. Most people able to use Gift Aid have done so and the administration has been very simple which is important to a small charity"
Bill Giles, Director of Fundraising, Contact a Family.

"Gift Aid has been really worthwhile. For a small investment we have been able to generate over £400,000 extra over the last year - and this will increase in years to come. It's a real bonus"
Alan Gosschalk, Fundraising Director, Shelter.

One form - and that's it! Simply pick up a leaflet and form from our foyer or download it here.

Click to view a document, or Right-Click and choose "Save"

MS Word version (64kb) PDF version (52kb)

Feel free to ask us if you'd like more details about how it all works.
It's a great way to help the Curzon, and any amount you decide to give is appreciated.
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