CLEAN BREAK THEATRE COMPANY

Registered charity 1017560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEAN BREAK

Clean Break uses theatre for personal and political change, working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £814,687 to £793,648, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, citing ongoing support from bankers and funders.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Clean Break (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah-Jane Dent — Co-Chair (source)
• Natasha Bucknor — Executive Director & Joint CEO (source)
• Anna Herrmann — Artistic Director & Joint CEO (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Jefferis
• Amanda Richardson
• Catherine Meijer
• Catriona Guthrie
• Grace Arogundade · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Southgate
• Joni Emery
• Josette Bushell-Mingo
• Naima Sakande
• Noa Elizabeth Bladon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nola Sterling
• Rania Jumaily
• Sarah Jane Dent
• Sophie Qi Fei Rolph
• Winsome May Pinnock · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BREAK income £16.6m
• ACTION BREAKS SILENCE income £151k
• BREAKTHROUGH U.K. LTD income £350k
• THE THEATRE IN PRISONS AND PROBATION CENTRE income £247k
• BREAKTHROUGH - TRANSFORMATION TRUST income £3.7m
• OPEN CLASP THEATRE COMPANY income £362k

Side by side with its peers

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