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.

Objects

(A)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO IMPRISONMENT OF WOMEN (B)TO HELP REHABILITATE AND RE-INTEGRATE WOMEN EX-PRISONERS AND OFFENDERS BY PROMOTING AND DEVELOPING THE CREATIVE, ARTISTIC AND PRACTICAL ABILITIES OF SUCH PERSONS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/03/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 5 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02690758
• Trading subsidiary: CLEAN BREAK PRODUCTIONS LIMITED Companies House 09753638 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BLADON, Noa Elizabeth — director, appointed 21/07/2026on trustee list
• ROLPH, Sophie Qi Fei — director, appointed 21/07/2026on trustee list
• EMERY, Joni Kristina — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• BUSHELL-MINGO, Josette Vinella Xamina — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• DENT, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• SOUTHGATE, Jessica — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• AROGUNDADE, Grace Omolara — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• GUTHRIE, Catriona Maire — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• MEIJER, Catherine Carien — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• SAKANDE, Naima — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• JUMAILY, Rania — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• JEFFERIS, Alison Mary — director, appointed 11/07/2019on trustee list
• BUCKNOR, Natasha Mae — secretary, appointed 30/09/2024

Official officers record.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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

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

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 UNLEASHED THEATRE COMPANY.

• UNLEASHED THEATRE COMPANY income £198k
• THEATRE UNCUT PRODUCTIONS income £13k
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• WOMEN AND THEATRE (BIRMINGHAM) LIMITED income £193k
• CLEAN SHEET income £408k
• GET CHANGED THEATRE COMPANY income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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