Mhora Samuel, Director of the Theatres Trust, explains how the organisation’s role has evolved in recent years to provide funding to theatres at risk and how its Small Grants Scheme – launched last month with support from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation – aims to help theatres better serve their communities.

How was your Easter, then? ‘Wet’ was somehow too small a word for it, as I recall. But that said, you’ve got to hand it to the British weather, haven’t you? Scorching sunshine, sleet, or snow – the only predictable thing about Easter weather is its stubborn refusal to be predictable. You can’t completely blame…