PILOT THEATRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1003677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PILOT THEATRE COMPANY

Pilot Theatre is a National touring Theatre Company producing established work and new writing for young people.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREOF.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total net deficit of £78,734 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves to £369,517. The trustees note that this level of funds is reasonable, albeit below the stated target of 12 months of core and management expenditure, which is budgeted at £414,154 for the following year. The budget for the year ending 31 March 2026 anticipates a further deficit of £71,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 04/02/2022, 4 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “Pilot would not be able to provide our range of activities for young people and the opportunities for them to participate in the arts withou…” (source page)
• Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation — “In addition we are very grateful to a range of supporters from individuals to the following trusts and foundations who have provided funds o…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Richard Wrightchair
• Amanda Smith
• Bethany Louise Stevens
• Catherine Elizabeth Dartsch
• David Collins
• Esther Richardson
• Gareth William Burrow
• John Roger Wilkinson · trustee of 2 other charities
• STEPHEN MASON
• Shannon Elise David
• Sophie Florence Buckley
• TRACY MOSLEY
• Victoria Jayne Blakey-Archer · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PILOTLIGHT.

• PILOTLIGHT income £1.5m
• PIONEER THEATRES LIMITED income £4.3m
• PEUT-ETRE THEATRE LIMITED income £109k
• PENRITH PLAYERS THEATRE income £183k
• PUTNEY ARTS THEATRE income £316k
• NEW VENTURE PRODUCTIONS income £117k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.