RIVERSIDE THEATRE COMPANY

Registered charity 1057219 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEPPERCORNS PERFORMING ARTS

Provides professional performing arts tuition for young people from all backgrounds including classes in dance, drama and singing. Assisted places scheme to encourage participation for children from low income families. Two major musical theatre performances per year.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO FOSTER AND DEVELOP AN INTEREST IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, PARTICULARLY MUSICAL THEATRE

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: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a small surplus of £323 for the year ended 31 August 2025, based on consistent pupil numbers and tight control on spending. Free/unrestricted reserves (General Fund) stood at £11,432, an increase from the previous year's £11,109. The examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accounting records or compliance with regulations.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 01/07/2026, 1 day after the 30/06/2026 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

• Kimberley McGrathchair
• Elizabeth Ducker
• Jacqueline Huckle
• Karl David Wainwright
• Kirsty Sarah Pitt

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTER THEATRE GROUP.

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Side by side with its peers

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