ROSES THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 1051708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROSES THEATRE

Theatre, cinema and arts centre also providing education to the community through the arts.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA MIME DANCE SINGING AND MUSIC LITERATURE POETRY PAINTING SCULPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ALL OTHER GRAPHIC AND FINE ARTS AND TO FORMULATE PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE B) TO PROVIDE AN ARTS RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY AND TO PROMOTE A FULL RANGE OF AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL ARTS EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS AND TO PROVIDE AND ENCOURAGE THE WIDENING OF THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PUBLIC AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALL ART FORMS BY PROMOTING PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS THROUGH CLASSES WORKSHOPS OUTREACH AND OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTIVITIES

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: Tewkesbury, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £19,920, increasing total funds to £519,653. However, unrestricted reserves are in deficit at £95,351, and current liabilities exceed current assets by £240,597. The auditor has identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to these financial positions and reliance on external funding.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley. 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 28/03/2025, 56 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (71% 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: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Joseph Turnbull
• Graham Wright
• Jane Baalam
• Margaret Brewer
• Matthew Breen
• PAUL NICHOLAS JOHNSON
• Paul Llewellyn
• Scott Peacock
• Stephen Lambe
• Tom Spencer

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Worcestershire

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 KINGSTON THEATRE TRUST.

• KINGSTON THEATRE TRUST income £3.9m
• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £3.1m
• THEATRE-RITES income £278k
• BROS THEATRE COMPANY income £55k
• GLADSTONE THEATRE TRUST income £386k

Side by side with its peers

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