Thirty years of opening nights, zero salaries.
Lind Lane Theatre exists so that live theatre belongs to everyone in our town — made by neighbours, priced for families, and run as a charity, full stop.
Curtain call, 1996 – today
We provide an outlet for youth and adults to participate in community theatre — performing or volunteering in every aspect of the craft — we teach young people theatre skills for life, and we open our venue to other charities for their fundraising.
That's the mission we report against to the ACNC every year, and it's the test every committee decision has to pass: does it open the stage to more people, teach the next generation, or help another good cause?
Our charity, on the record.
These details are a matter of public record on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission register.
The people we answer to
A committee of volunteers, answerable to members.
As an incorporated association and registered charity, we're governed by a management committee elected by our members each year. Meeting minutes, budgets and season plans are open to members, and our annual reports are lodged publicly with the ACNC.
- Management committee elected annually by members
- Minutes and finances open to all members
- Annual reporting to the ACNC, publicly available
- No paid staff — every role, from president to prompt corner, is a volunteer
A town that refused to lose its stage.
Lind Lane Theatre was incorporated in Nambour on the last day of 1996 — a group of locals who believed a hinterland town deserved live theatre of its own, not just a drive to the coast to watch somebody else's.
Three decades on, the model hasn't changed: volunteers build the sets, local actors fill the roles, teenagers learn the ropes in our classes, and other charities borrow the room when they need a stage for a good cause. Some of our current committee first walked in as nervous twelve-year-olds.
Backstage since 1996