ASTOR COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1069710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIGFOOT COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST LIMITED, BIGFOOT THEATRE COMPANY, THE POLSKA THEATRE COMPANY

Provides support to the Astor Community Theatre by raising funds to create and enhance the available opportunities for arts and music activities, education workshops, apprenticeship schemes, capital expenditure project and events to local communities of East Kent.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF: DRAMA, PERFORMING ARTS, VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC, FILMMAKING, DIGITAL MEDIA, MARTIAL ARTS, CULINARY ARTS AND COMBINED ARTS 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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Latest income
£77k
Latest spending
£56k
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only Docusign Envelope IDs and does not include any financial data, trustee reports, or auditor statements. Therefore, no assessment of financial health can be made based on the text provided.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Astor Community Theatre (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£77k£56k
31/03/2024£73k£65k
31/03/2023£11k£6k
31/03/2022£30k£65k
31/03/2021£76k£39k

Common questions

Is ASTOR COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains only Docusign Envelope IDs and does not include any financial data, trustee reports, or auditor statements. Therefore, no assessment of financial health can be made based on the text provided.

Who funds ASTOR COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST LTD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ASTOR COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST LTD as a grant recipient include THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£5kLive Streaming and refurbishment

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/11/2018£3k"Time and Tide: Oral histories of our maritime and seafaring heritage"