VICTORIA HALL PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1051379 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing facilities for hire for the performing arts, dance &music for all ages and abilities.Performing arts for the community for all ages. Training in stage craft for all ages. Training in acting for all ages. Facilities for performing new writers of plays. Facilities for the performing arts for schools. Facilities for performing arts for the disabled of all ages. Area-Essex & Hertfordshire.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PERFORMING ARTS IN GENERAL IN THE HARLOW AREA, IN PARTICULAR BY ENCOURAGING ACCESSIBILITY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL AS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SAID ARTS.

Area of benefit: HARLOW

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harlow, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a positive operating result for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total receipts of £65,080 and payments of £59,762, resulting in a surplus of £5,318. Per the trustees' report, total identified monetary assets at year-end were £58,920.49, comprising bank balances and ticket receipts awaiting settlement, alongside estimated bar stock of £1,190.00.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 31/10/2026, 365 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 31/10/2026, 730 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 31/10/2026, 1096 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 04/02/2024, 461 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN COLTONchair
• Andrew Johnson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Caroline Petherbridge
• Jared Greenall
• Jonathan Chinsky
• Kylea Benge
• Shona Johnson

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

Operates in: Essex · Herefordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VICTORIA HALL HARROW.

• VICTORIA HALL HARROW income £232k
• VICTORIA HALL income £40k
• SETTLE VICTORIA HALL LIMITED income £382k
• THE VICTORY HALL income £21k
• NORTHERN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £695k
• THE WITHAM HALL LIMITED income £522k

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