The Theatre Orchard launches cash-crisis appeal for £10,000 over next six weeks North Somerset’s only professional performing arts organisation this week issued an urgent appeal for donations and sponsorship from supporters, businesses, trusts, and benefactors to avoid closure in the next six weeks. The Theatre Orchard, which has been providing theatre, film, music, storytelling and creative writing performances and workshops across North Somerset and Bristol since 2007, needs to raise £10,000 by the end of July in order to complete its bid to secure funding for the future. ‘Unless we get an immediate cash injection to tide us over, we will have to close,’ said The Theatre Orchard Chair, Bob Walton. ‘Our current Arts Council funding runs out very soon and they want to see more local financial support before we can go back to them with another bid. We’ve hit a crisis and we’re hoping that everyone who…