THEATRE-RITES

Registered charity 1048058 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Creating touring and site-specific theatre for children and their families.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THE DRAMATIC ARTS.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £278,321 against total expenditure of £274,852, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £42,000 designated for emergency running costs and a designated artistic reserve of £94,934. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH ANN LYNCH FRSAchair
• Brigitte Adela
• Katrina Duncan
• Laura Van Wymersch
• Liam Jarvis
• Natasha Kathi-Chandra
• ROGER NELSON
• Robert Stephenson

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 COMPANY THREE THEATRE.

• COMPANY THREE THEATRE income £554k
• ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE LIMITED income £1.2m
• THEATRE ORCHARD PROJECTS LIMITED income £560k
• Bretforton Theatre income £331k
• THE ST. IVES YOUTH THEATRE income £26k
• CASCADE THEATRE COMPANY income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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