Go Live Theatre Projects

Registered charity 1053434 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MOUSETRAP THEATRE PROJECTS, TEACHERS PREVIEW CLUB, THE MOUSETRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED TO ENGAGE WITH LONDON'S THEATRE THROUGH PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR SCHOOLS (MAINSTREAM & SPECIAL), YOUTH GROUPS AND FAMILIES. EACH PROGRAMME INCLUDES A THEATRE TRIP ENHANCED WITH TALKS, EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS, USING THEATRE AS A CATALYST TO EXPLORE IDEAS, LEARN NEW SKILLS AND OFFER NEW PERSPECTIVES.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, DANCE, MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS AND TO FORMULATE PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVLEY, PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.(B) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ARTS PRACTITIONERS AND TEACHERS TO FURTHERDEVELOP THEIR SKILLS IN DELIVERING ARTS EDUCATION(C) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES IN SUPPORT OF THE ARTS AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE COMPANY MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE(D) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES GENERALLY AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE COMPANY MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE UNITED KINGDOM

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £99,347 for the year ended 31 August 2025, primarily due to restructuring costs. Free reserves excluding fixed assets fell to £281,427, which is below the trustees' policy target of six months of budgeted operating expenses, though the trustees maintain the charity remains a going concern.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Go Live Theatre (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 31.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Prideauxchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREA SULLIVAN
• ANTHONY JAMES CLARE
• Adam Kenwright
• Ashley Herman
• Darcy Dixon
• Esther May Myers
• Gerard Blair
• Jill Tuffee
• Natasha Joy Barrington
• Thomas Michael Christopher Tabor
• Yvette Jarvis

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RE-LIVE.

• RE-LIVE income £227k
• THE LOFT THEATRE COMPANY income £179k
• THEATRE DE COMPLICITE EDUCATION LIMITED income £1.1m
• IMMEDIATE THEATRE income £708k
• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
• THEATRE WORKS income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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