Millgate Arts Centre has a Building the Future appeal to raise funds towards improving and maintaining this fantastic volunteer run venue.
Give a seat your name and support Building the Future

Give a seat your name: sponsor a seat for £150 (see details below – you can also choose to Gift Aid your donation). There are 160 seats available and more than 140 have already been given a name so far. Send a cheque payable to Millgate Arts Centre Ltd at the address below.
You can sponsor a seat for as little as £10 a month. We offer flexible ways to pay: a one-off payment of £150, a standing order of £50 for 3 years, or a standing order for £10 a month over 15 months – see below for details.
To recognise your gift we will:
• Add your name onto a plaque on the chair you choose
• Give you a Certificate of Thanks
• Send you a regular newsletter as a Friend of the Auditorium
• Allow priority booking at the beginning of the season so you can book your seat for the shows you want to see
How do I sign up?
You can choose the seat you want to sponsor and either make a one-off donation £150 (with Gift Aid) or just make a commitment to a seat and we’ll send you a Standing Order and Gift Aid form. We also can help you sign-up at the Theatre, or you can telephone Ian Shepherd on 01457 874644.
For larger donations please email John Tanner at or call 07802 385591.
Support us Building the future and put your name on a seat as a Friend of the Millgate Auditorium
We’d like to thank the following for their generous donations towards the Millgate Appeal which has made the auditorium refurbishment possible this summer and will enable us to complete the bar refurb planned for summer 2020.
List of sponsors:
Alphin Pans Ltd
Coop Delph Community Fund
R. Gledhill Ltd
Dobcross Village Community
Delph Community Association
The Treeside Trust
Ibex Marina
Oldham Metro Rotary Club
Oldham Mayor’s Charity (Cllr J.Iqbal)
Saddleworth Concerts Society
Saddleworth Film Society
Saddleworth & Lees District Executive
Saddleworth Live
Saddleworth Parish Council Chairman’s Charity (Cllr. R Knotts)
Saddleworth Parish Council
Saddleworth Round Table
The Stoller Trust
The Roger Tanner Trust
Friends of the Auditorium:
David Ackerley |
Jennifer and Raad Al-Hamdani |
Trevor Baxter |
Jenny Begley |
Keith Begley |
Ken Bennett |
Catherine Bingley |
Sheila Bocking |
Gill Brett |
Ian Brett |
Craig Brotherdale |
Adrian Brown |
Eileen Brown |
Sarah Brown |
Cllr Pam Byrne |
Patricia Clegg |
Paul Clegg |
Michael Clegg |
Stuart Coleman |
Rosemary Coupe |
Vernan Cressey |
Margaret Dale |
Richard Darlington |
Chris and Carol and Kate Davies |
Katherine Davies |
Lynne Davies-Capper |
Catherine Davis |
Julia Dawson |
Kate & Ian Deam |
Ken Deighton |
Marion Deighton |
Anne Dickinson |
Sandy Dixie OBE |
Louise Durose |
Susan Ellwood |
Betty Evans |
Desmond Flanagan |
Julia Friedrich |
Dell Gillespie |
Baerbel Grayson |
John Grayson |
Phil Grundy |
Elizabeth Headon |
Richard Healey |
Linda Heywood |
Malcolm Hill |
Margaret Hill |
Susan Hirst |
Nancy Hobson |
June Holmes |
Tim Holmes |
Catherine Johnstone |
Colette Keeley |
Kevin Lawton |
Mirriam Lawton |
Pamela Lever |
Pamela Lum |
John Maiden |
Kay Maiden |
David Makin |
Andrew Mann |
Verity Mann |
Peter Marriette |
Arthur Marsland |
Jennifer Marsland |
Sally and David McKee |
Tim Newbold |
Elizabeth Partington |
John Pearson |
Janice Peel |
Stephanie Pelmore |
Janet Platt |
Philip Platt |
David Plowright |
Michael Powis |
Phil Ratcliffe |
Samuel Reid |
Duncan Rhodes |
Nancy Rhodes |
Hannah Roberts |
Helen Rowland |
Sam Rowlands |
Paul Rowland |
Nick Royle |
Jayne Settle |
Luke Settle |
Pamela Shepley |
David Shipp |
Phillida Shipp |
Christine Smith |
Graham Smith |
Colin Smith |
Marian Smith |
Eileen Southard |
John Tanner |
Poppy Tanner |
Roger Tanner |
Andrew Taylor |
Jennifer & Wilfred Theakstone |
Margaret Thompson |
Yvonne Walmsley |
Patricia Warham |
Colin Watt and Delia B. O’Kane |
Nick Watts |
Alayne and Craig Whitworth |
Simon Woods |
Stella Woods |
Anne Wright |
Ken Wright |