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# Sticker campaign planned over council funding for Lichfield Garrick
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/sticker-campaign-planned-over-council-funding-for-lichfield-garrick/
- Published: 2013-07-08T08:17:05.000Z
- Updated: 2013-07-08T08:17:05.000Z
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:24, News

Campaigners are planning to distribute thousands of stickers in a protest about funding given to the Lichfield Garrick.

[Printing firm Sabcat say they are making the move](http://sabcat.com/garrick/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) in protest at the theatre “swallowing millions of pounds” of Lichfield District Council money.

[![The Lichfield Garrick](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/lichfield-garrick-front.png)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2013/02/12/agreement-signed-to-convert-lichfield-garrick-into-charitable-theatre-trust/lichfield-garrick-front/)

The Lichfield Garrick

The Garrick has been at the centre of a storm following the local authority’s Fit for the Future review, which is aiming to find £1.7million of cuts.

Community services is one of the departments at risk, while leisure and play facilities are also facing the chop.

“The leader of Lichfield District Council has assured residents that all options will be considered before cuts are made,” said a Sabcat spokesperson.

“The Garrick theatre, shortly after this assurance put out drivel saying that the Garrick is ‘essential’ to local business, bringing £7million to the local economy.

“They base this assertion on a financial impact study they have never carried out. The figure is arrived at using a formula developed for the Arts Council to calculate the value of the entire UK theatre industry.

“Being commissioned and paid for by the Arts Council, the objective value of the formula is questionable for it’s stated purpose.

“Lichfield District Council are going to cut services used by the most vulnerable in the district and to hell with the consequences to the people affected, while the Garrick will retain its £500,000 subsidy.”

The company is now planning to distribute free stickers to local residents with the slogan: “Have a nice night out at the Garrick. Paid for by the elderly and vulnerable of Lichfield District.”

And Sabcat say their move has been sparked by what it claims are long-term failings in the local theatre.

“For many years Tory-led Lichfield District Council have provided subsidy to the Garrick, a venture that they have assured the people of the district since before it was built will make a profit.

“It has never made a profit, it has in fact swallowed millions of pounds of Lichfield District Council’s money and continues to do so at the rate of £500,000 a year.”

No-one from Lichfield District Council was available for comment.