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Bury St Edmunds Theatre
Location: Bury St Edmunds
Loan Amount: £100,000
Date: February 2010
The third oldest working theatre in the UK, with a unique Regency stage, the building badly needed renovating. Charity Bank lent the team £400,000 to bridge planned fundraising for the £5.2m project, and following two years of extensive restoration, the theatre reopened in September 2007, the loan was repaid in 2009. A new £100,000 loan was agreed in 2010 to bridge grant funding.