WALK THE PLANK

Registered charity 1046077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Performing Arts Charity specialising in large scale outdoor performance, community engagement and participatory events in the UK, EU and further afield.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA,MIME,DANCE SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

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: Salford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £9,563 for the year, despite an increase in turnover to £2,283,539. Free reserves stood at £408,124, which is below the trustees' stated target of around £500,000. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Banks Sheridan. Discloses 3 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 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)

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• English National Opera & Walk the Plank to Present 400-Voice Community Choir Performance at Salford Festival operawire.com · 21/05/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03028442 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: WALK THE PLANK FIREWORKS LTD Companies House 03664585

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.

• KLINGER, Billie Frances — director, appointed 30/04/2025on trustee list
• DEES, Liz Angela — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• HIGGINS, Gawen Wallace — director, appointed 17/01/2024on trustee list
• GARCIA, Beatriz, Dr — director, appointed 18/10/2022on trustee list
• BYRNE, Nicholas James — director, appointed 03/10/2018on trustee list
• PAGE, Catrina — director, appointed 08/12/2016on trustee list
• NAUGHTON, Liam Joseph — director, appointed 08/12/2016on trustee list
• PAUL, Christopher Joseph — director, appointed 16/04/1997not on trustee list
• MORRISON, Charles Andrew — secretary, appointed 23/09/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beatriz Garciachair
• Billie Klinger
• CHRIS PAUL
• Catrina Page
• Gawen Higgins
• Liam Naughton
• Liz Dees
• Nicholas James Byrne

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Showcase Performing Arts.

• Showcase Performing Arts income £27k
• Highly Sprung Performance income £473k
• WALK TALL income £214k
• THEATRE WORKS income £159k
• ACTIONTRACK PERFORMANCE COMPANY LIMITED income £164k
• DONCASTER PERFORMANCE VENUE LIMITED income £3.6m

Side by side with its peers

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