FUTURES THEATRE COMPANY

Registered charity 1052890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Futures Theatre empowers women facing multiple marginalisations, who are socially and economically excluded from creative joy, amplifying their vital, unheard stories through theatre, podcasts and engagement programmes.We champion equity, directly creating art with and for survivors of domestic abuse, focusing on women whose intersectionality places them at greater risk of gendered violence.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ,MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE LIFESTYLES AND INTERESTS OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND TO FOMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR 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: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a significant financial improvement with a surplus of £163,270, driven largely by a Theatre Tax Relief claim. Reserves have increased to £203,362, providing eight months of running costs, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of three to six months. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 6 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03149687

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.

• CRISP, Natalie Laura — director, appointed 22/09/2025on trustee list
• WILLS, Natasha Ruth Mccallum — director, appointed 22/09/2025on trustee list
• DEE, Tanya Loretta — director, appointed 07/02/2022not on trustee list
• BARBER, Judith Mary — director, appointed 19/03/2019on trustee list
• ASCOLI, Giulia — director, appointed 19/03/2019on trustee list
• DOBSON, Clare — director, appointed 04/01/2019on trustee list
• BRYANT, Caroline Tracey — secretary, appointed 18/11/1999

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Madeleine Dobson
• Giulia Ascoli
• Judith Mary Barber
• Natalie Crisp
• Natasha Wills
• Tanya-Loretta Dee

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Redcar And Cleveland · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Refugee Futures Ltd.

• Refugee Futures Ltd income £251k
• FACE FRONT INCLUSIVE THEATRE LIMITED income £320k
• TOMORROW'S WOMEN income £950k
• CREATIVE FUTURE income £186k
• CREATIVE FUTURES (UK) LIMITED income £411k
• Brave Futures income £881k

Side by side with its peers

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