Individual · monthly
£20 / month
One seat per screening. Cancel any time.
- · Unlimited cinema screenings, any film, any time
- · Priority booking for community events
- · 10% off everything from the bar
- · Your name on the Friends wall
Friends of the Tower
The town saved this building. Now we keep it open.
Become a Tower Friend — £20 a month, unlimited cinema, and the door stays open for the next person who needs it.
The story
Save The Tower.
The Tower has been a hub of entertainment and artistic expression in Helensburgh for years. After two years of closure, and a long, stubborn campaign led by a volunteer group called Save The Tower, the building came into community ownership on the first of April, 2026.
It’s a Victorian church — Saint Columba’s, built in 1861 — on Sinclair Street. A 250-seat main auditorium and two smaller spaces. From 2014 until it shut at the start of 2024, it was the only cinema for twenty miles in any direction, serving Helensburgh, Dumbarton, Alexandria, and rural Argyll.
It runs now as a not-for-profit, programmed by people who live in the town. Tickets are kept affordable on purpose. Every penny of surplus goes back into the building — the seats, the projector, the heating, the roof, the people.
That only works if enough people choose to be part of it. Tower Friends is how we keep the doors open.
“The only cinema in a twenty-mile radius.”
— Save The Tower campaign, 2024–2026
Become a Friend
£20 a month. Unlimited cinema.
The Tower’s membership. One simple price, no exclusions, no peak-time mark-ups.
Family · monthly
£35 / month
Up to four seats per screening. Cancel any time.
- · Two adults + two children per screening
- · One household card, one shared code
- · Priority on community events for everyone in the household
- · 10% off everything from the bar
Gift · individual
£240 / year
A year of Tower Friend for one person — comes with a personal note from you.
Gift a year →Gift · family
£420 / year
A year of Family Tower Friend for a whole household — up to four seats per screening.
Gift a year →Or just give what you can
Every donation goes back into the building.
Not ready for a membership? A one-off donation — from £5 up — helps with the projector lamp, the seats, the heating bill. Every penny goes back into the Tower; nothing is taken out for profit.
Make a donation →
From the campaign
Within community lies unity.
Photographs from the Save The Tower campaign and the reopening, 2024–2026.
Where does the money go?
The building, the programme, the people. The Tower is a not-for-profit; no surplus is paid out as profit.
Cancel any time
Stop your monthly membership in a single click from your receipt email. No phone calls, no forms.
Made in Helensburgh
The website, the ticketing, the membership system — all built locally by someone who lives in the town.