THE PLAY HOUSE (B'HAM) LTD

Registered charity 1034809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CATALYST, EDUCATIONAL THEATRE SERVICES LIMITED, LANGUAGE ALIVE!, PLAY HOUSE PROJECT

The Play House provides exciting particpatory theatre and drama to stimulate the learning of children and young people, igniting the imagination to make sense of the world. Its projects bring the curriculum to life for primary schools, explore social, emotional & health issues and extend these ideas beyond the classroom.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF DRAMA AND THEATRE (2) TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF ARTS EDUCATION AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES THROUGH TRAINING PROGRAMMES, COURSES, LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, CLASSES AND CONFERENCES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE GREAT BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND

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

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £49,291 for the year, increasing total unrestricted and restricted funds to £177,260. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The filing was subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 4 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
• 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

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 31/08/2021 (received 18/08/2022, 49 days after the 30/06/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02828276 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PRITCHARD, Victoria Emily Jane — director, appointed 27/08/2026on trustee list
• ALEXANDRU, Liam — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• HENRY, Adaya Monique — director, appointed 21/03/2022on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Tessa — director, appointed 11/05/2020on trustee list
• WYNNE-WILLSON, Peter — secretary, appointed 06/05/2026

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Adaya Monique Henry
• Liam Alexandru
• TESSA TAYLOR
• Victoria Emily Jane Pritchard

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE CHELTENHAM.

• THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE CHELTENHAM income £895k
• THE PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION income £112k
• THE PLAYGROUND THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £212k
• THE DEARNE PLAYHOUSE income £133k
• THE PLAYHOUSE BACKWELL income £46k
• BADINGHAM PLAY SCHOOL income £440k

Side by side with its peers

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