AUDIENCE donations after each performance of the 2014 Rowntree Players pantomime, Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves, will go Door 84 Youth Club and the renal unit at York Hospital.
A sum of £1,265.34 was raised from collections during the December run to be divided between Door 84, in Lowther Street, where the Players hold their rehearsals, and the renal unit, in memory David Bushby, who was the theatre manager at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre for 31 years.
The Door 84 donation will help to fund a residential activity weekend for children who attend the youth club; the renal unit money will go towards a television for the patients receiving treatment in the acute ward at the hospital.
"Each year, we support local charities with the money our audiences donate," says Players secretary Caroline Heppell.
"This year we're delighted to be able to support Door 84 and the renal unit. We hope that the money will make a difference both to the children on their residential weekend and the renal patients at York District Hospital."
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