CHIPPING NORTON THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 1052855 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the Trust is supporting The Chipping Norton Theatre Limited.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROMOTION, PRODUCTION AND ENCOURAGMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS INCLUDING DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC, IMPROVEMENT OF THE TASTEAND APPRECIATION OF SAID ARTS BY THE PUBLIC

Area of benefit: CHIPPING NORTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds carried forward were £187,476, with a net income of £21,507 for the year. The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue as a going concern, noting no material uncertainties exist. The charity maintains a reserves policy focused on covering its annual donation to the Theatre, with current unrestricted reserves significantly exceeding this operational requirement.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Small Print — “Website developed with funding from Small Print” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Thomas
• JOSEPHINE GRAVES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael John Gunn
• Richard Greaves
• Tim Sumner

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Oxfordshire · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHIPPING NORTON THEATRE LIMITED.

• THE CHIPPING NORTON THEATRE LIMITED income £1.8m
• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £489k
• HOLYBOURNE THEATRE income £60k
• THE RONDO TRUST FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS income £127k
• GEOFFREY WHITWORTH THEATRE LIMITED income £164k
• THE UPSTAGERS THEATRE CHARITY LIMITED income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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