The Royal Shakespeare Company MUST Accept Cash!

HM Treasury doesn’t seem to know the extent of the “cashless” problem in the UK?

Luckily, the Payment Choice Alliance does.

Take the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Chaired by Shriti Vadera - who used to Chair Santander UK - the Royal Shakespeare Company accepted over £17.5 Million of the British publics money last year in the form of Government funded grants, via the Arts Council - BUT won’t accept the same British publics cash.

Much Ado About Nothing?

No.

More “Et tu, Shriti?”

In June 2025, the Payment Choice Alliance wrote to Lisa Nandy MP, Secretary of State for Media, Culture and Sport about this issue - and asked for immediate action.

Stand not upon the order of the going, Lisa - get “going” on this NOW.

Of course, this could simply be a mistake - a Comedy of Errors - with the Royal Shakespeare Company forgetting what it owes the British public?

If so, unlike the Merchant of Venice, the Payment Choice Alliance will not demand our £ of flesh.

The Royal Shakespeare Company can simply, Measure by Measure, correct the error and return to accepting cash, early in August 2025. Twelfth Night of the month will be fine.

Or is that just a Midsummer Nights Dream?

Let’s hope not, because the consequence would be The Tempest blowing the £17.5 Million of Government grants back into the public purse.

Comedy becoming Tragedy for the Royal Shakespeare Company?

That wouldn’t be As You Like It, Shriti.

Please deal with this yourself - or Lisa Nandy might have to do a little Taming of the Shrew….

The last words- for now - of the Payment Choice Alliance on the subject?

“Away, vile cashless!”

rsc.org.uk