THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1012507 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMPLICITE

Creating and producing new theatrical productions and providing an educational programme to accompany and complement this.

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Latest income

£1.1m

Latest spending

£1.3m

Registered

1992

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £143,709 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting from a transition out of London and a reduced touring schedule. Despite the deficit, the filing notes that cash flow remains healthy with a closing balance of £814,853, and unrestricted reserves stand at £726,482. The trustees have established designated reserves, including a wind-up cost reserve of £325,000, to cover up to six months of core costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £70,001 - £80,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee earned between £70,000 - £79,999 during the year (2024 - nil).” — page 38

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee earned between £70,000 - £79,999 during the year (2024 - nil). No employee earned between £60,000 - £69,999 during the year (2024 - nil).” — page 38

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Largest income source: Arts Council England NPO grant (32% of income)

“Our principal source of fundraising continued to be from Arts Council England NPO grant (£370,313), which represents just over 32% of our overall income.” — page 17

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: six months core costs (held: £726k)

“Our policy is to keep sufficient free reserves to cover up to six months core costs, plus a small provision for current liabilities and commitments.” — page 19

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: One trustee received royalty payments of £391. Two trustees received reimbursed travel expenses of £142.

“The trustees received no remuneration during the year (2024 - £nil). The aggregated amount reimbursed to two Trustees during the year was £142 (2024 - £nil) relating to travel costs. Royalty payments of £391 (2024 - £nil) were made to one Trustee.” — page 38

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: One Trustee made a donation of £5,000 to the charity in the year.

“One Trustee made a donation of £5,000 to the charity in the year. There were no other related party transactions which require disclosure in the financial statements.” — page 45

“The aggregated amount reimbursed to two Trustees during the year was £142 (2024 - £nil) relating to travel costs. Royalty payments of £391 (2024 - £nil) were made to one Trustee.” — page 38

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Royalty payments of £391 were made to one Trustee.

“One Trustee made a donation of £5,000 to the charity in the year. There were no other related party transactions which require disclosure in the financial statements.” — page 45

“The aggregated amount reimbursed to two Trustees during the year was £142 (2024 - £nil) relating to travel costs. Royalty payments of £391 (2024 - £nil) were made to one Trustee.” — page 38

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Complicite Enterprises Limited

“The Company remained dormant during the year. Its aggregate amount of capital and reserves and the results of this undertaking for the last relevant financial year were as follows: Capital and reserves £ 1” — page 40

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Breckman & Company Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Simon McBurney — Artistic Director and co-founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Total income

£1.1m

Total spending

£1.3m

Cost of raising funds

£72k

Reserves (reported)

£726k

Employees

10

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

TOM MORRISchair
Emma Stevenson
Estelle Wackermann
Frances Hughes
Fraser Gawaine Munro Jopp · trustee of 1 other charity
Inua Ellams · trustee of 2 other charities
Louise Jeffreys
Niall Black
Peter Gerald Flamman
Susan Claire Ferguson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.1m	£1.3m
31/03/2024	£2.1m	£2.0m
31/03/2023	£1.9m	£2.4m
31/03/2022	£871k	£1.0m
31/03/2021	£831k	£737k

Common questions

Is THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £143,709 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting from a transition out of London and a reduced touring schedule. Despite the deficit, the filing notes that cash flow remains healthy with a closing balance of £814,853, and unrestricted reserves stand at £726,482. The trustees have established designated reserves, including a wind-up cost reserve of £325,000, to cover up to six months of core costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Breckman & Company Ltd.

What does the highest-paid employee of THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £70,001 - £80,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED as a grant recipient include MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUND, FRAZER TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUND	FY2022	£45k
FRAZER TRUST	FY2024	£2k	Leisure activities, animals and wildlife
FRAZER TRUST	FY2025	£2k	Leisure activities, animals and wildlife
FRAZER TRUST	FY2023	£2k	Children
FRAZER TRUST	FY2022	£2k
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUND	FY2023	£0

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/11/2024	£16k	Grief Chorus
UK government	01/11/2024	£3k	Theatre de Complicité Education Ltd
The National Lottery Community Fund	19/05/2023	£10k	Grief Chorus
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/03/2022	£10k	Grief Chorus
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	29/04/2021	£20k	Complicité
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch	23/10/2019	£10k	Theatre De Complicite Education Limited

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION	3	£17k
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION	3	£6k
JOHN LYON'S CHARITY	2	£290k
THE FOYLE FOUNDATION	2	£200k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	2	£22k
THE IDLEWILD TRUST	2	£10k
THE GOLSONCOTT FOUNDATION	2	£2k
THE REED FOUNDATION	1	—

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED.

LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.7m
PIONEER THEATRES LIMITED income £4.3m
FOLIO THEATRE income £125k
TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.9m
LYRIC THEATRE HAMMERSMITH LIMITED income £6.7m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED	£1.1m	£70,001 - £80,000	1	above	—	no doubt
LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£9.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED FY2025	£2.7m	Greater than £60,000	1	below	—	no doubt
PIONEER THEATRES LIMITED FY2025	£4.3m	—	—	unclear	27.0%	no doubt
FOLIO THEATRE FY2025	£125k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED FY2025	£2.9m	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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