Amazon donates £500,000 to fund supporting theatre workers

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Amazon has donated £500,000 to the Theatre Community Fund, who provide grants to theatre workers and freelancers across the UK.

In addition to the donation provided to this fund by Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios, they are also donating a further £1 million to support those who work in film and television, as part of their $6 million commitment to support creative industries across Europe.

Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke said: “The creative community in Europe has been vital to our success in producing high-quality original TV series and movies for our global audience, and it is essential for us to help that community through this pandemic. We’ve made our first donations of £1.5 million today to provide support to the talented freelancers from the UK’s creative community who have been directly affected by the closure of theatres and halt in TV and film production.”

Olivia Colman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Francesca Moody, who launched the fund, said: “We are utterly blown away to have such an extraordinary level of support from Amazon”.