CHESHIRE DANCE WORKSHOP LIMITED

Registered charity 1020584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESHIRE DANCE

Cheshire Dance is the development agency for dance in the County and beyond. It supports artists, educators and communities of interest by encouraging, fostering and resourcing their activities and by creating links between them. Cheshire Dance is committed to increasing access to, and through the arts.

Objects

THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE STUDY PERFORMANCE KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING APPRECIATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART OF DANCE IN ALL ITS MANIFESTATIONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE CHESHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £137,916 for the year, with total income rising to £636,560. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £52,221 were held in line with the agreed target policy, and the organization remains a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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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 14/03/2022, 42 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).

• The Westminster Foundation — “Cheshire Dance’s NEXUS Programme creates space for young people to connect with themselves, their ideas and others, through dance in the Che…” (source page)
• Youth Opportunities Grant — “Dance Able receives funding from Youth Opportunities Grant!” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Mearnschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Sarrah Lahouel
• Emma Myles
• Janet Halloran
• Kerry Ogden
• Novae Claire Baghurst
• Rosalyn Cheryl Thomas
• Sarah Joy Richardson
• Victoria Barratt

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE.

• CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE income £243k
• DANCE UNITED YORKSHIRE CIO income £346k
• DANCE CREATIVE income £85k
• SHROPSHIRE INCLUSIVE DANCE CIO income £174k
• THE YORKSHIRE DANCE CENTRE TRUST income £840k
• YORKE DANCE PROJECT income £221k

Side by side with its peers

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