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This page was last updated on 22/9/2009
RAISE THE ROOF!
YOUR THEATRE NEEDS YOU
Please help preserve our heritage

"The Alman has a proud record of bringing Scottish work to the Coach House audiences, and they have played an important role in preserving our heritage.

The Heritage of The Alman Drama Club now stretches over seventy years of unbroken performance and YOU, our patrons, have supported our efforts magnificently. I have no doubt that the club has the drive, the energy and the commitment from our members, to maintain the variety and the quality of plays, new and old, classic and modern, that we bring to the intimate space that is the Coach House theatre."


As of 21/9/2009 courtesy of Kidica

"However, we have to look to the future with eyes open and realistic expectation. The Coach House is in need of urgent renovation, most particularly, the roof and tiling. Every heavy rainfall brings an ingress of water through damaged or rotten wood. This is a listed building which means that we have to have professional craftswork
replacing the original roofing and roof- tiles, and the cost for all the renovation work is now estimated at between £250,000 and £300,000....an enormous sum of money.

The Trustees of the club are currently in detailed negotiation with both Heritage
Lottery Funding and Historic Scotland in the hope that we will qualify for the funding that may be available through these sources. Other, smaller funds are being approached in order to try to amass a pot of money sufficient to carry out the necessary changes."

Gerry Docherty, Artistic Director
"We ourselves must contribute to the cost and one way of doing this is through additional performances. Thus in June, we will be giving Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. Members of the club are also involved in other ventures like the joint
celebration of Robert Burn's birth year in conjunction with Clackmannan Choral Society.
If we could have chosen a time to fund-raise or seek support from funding sources, it would not be now in this difficult economic downturn. But we cannot afford to sit back and wait for better times. Given that this is designated the Year of the Homecoming, perhaps we have to focus on our own home and our own heritage, and ask you and our community to join us in the formidable task of making this happen."
Joan Docherty, Chair, Alman Trust
Raising the Roof

We intend to raise the required funds by a number of routes, by our own work and contributions, by sourcing existing funding bodies and by seeking support from all of our members, patrons and supporters in the local community.
The club will seek to raise £40,000 pounds from our own direct efforts. We aim to match that sum with fund-raising events and contributions. Additional plays and joint events with other community artistic groups are already planned.

Sponsor a Roof tile
One way you could decide to support us is by sponsoring roof-tiles for the notional sum of £50.00 each. We recognise that this is a substantial gift towards our renovation fund and will record our thanks to our supporters in future club programmes, and by inviting all who contribute to a special event to mark the completion of the work. You may wish to be an anonymous donor, and we will of course respect any such requests.

We do not do this lightly because asking for money is always an embarrassment (unless your are a teenage offspring, where such a request is naturally your birthright) but many patrons have indicated that they wished to contribute, and a number of donations have already been registered.

Please make all cheques payable to "The Alman Dramatic Club (Renovation Fund)" and send them to
The Alman
PO Box 21171
Tillicoultry
FK10 9BP

Every single donation will be important in reaching our ambitious total
To find out more please email us at: Raise The Roof

Many many thanks