KESTREL THEATRE COMPANY

Registered charity 1073298 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education through drama projects for long term prisoners

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Latest income

£105k

Latest spending

£64k

Registered

1999

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £62,295 at the end of the period, which the trustees declare is sufficient to cover commitments for the following year. Total income for the year exceeded £100,000 for the first time in the charity's history, primarily from philanthropic sources. The charity reported no material deficits in any funds and held no investment assets.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Philanthropic sources

“Practically all is from philanthropic sources, including a small number of regular charitable trust supporters.” — page 6

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: sufficient reserve to fulfill projects we have agreed to deliver with the prisons in which we work (held: £62k)

“As before our policy remains simply to maintain always a sufficient reserve to fulfill projects we have agreed to deliver with the prisons in which we work.” — page 6

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 03636080

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kestrel Theatre Company (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.

ROUGHAN, Holly Race — director, appointed 15/04/2021on trustee list
MESFIN, Meketaye — director, appointed 23/10/2018on trustee list
WATSON, Peter Donald Frank — director, appointed 01/10/2018on trustee list
TENNANT, Simon William — director, appointed 15/01/2017on trustee list
WHITE, James Henry — director, appointed 22/09/1998on trustee list
WATSON, Peter Donald Frank — secretary, appointed 01/10/2018

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

JAMES HENRY WHITEchair
Holly Race Roughan
MEKETAYE MESFIN
PETER DONALD FRANK WATSON
Simon William Tennant

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£105k	£64k
31/12/2023	£100k	£68k
31/12/2022	£47k	£46k
31/12/2021	£36k	£9k
31/12/2020	£14k	£16k

Common questions

Is KESTREL THEATRE COMPANY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £62,295 at the end of the period, which the trustees declare is sufficient to cover commitments for the following year. Total income for the year exceeded £100,000 for the first time in the charity's history, primarily from philanthropic sources. The charity reported no material deficits in any funds and held no investment assets.

Who funds KESTREL THEATRE COMPANY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KESTREL THEATRE COMPANY as a grant recipient include THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION, MIDDLE WAY TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION	FY2025	£500k
MIDDLE WAY TRUST	FY2025	£10k
MIDDLE WAY TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION	FY2024	£6k
MIDDLE WAY TRUST	FY2023	£5k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUST	1	£161k
COUNTYPIER LIMITED	1	£116k
H C D MEMORIAL FUND	1	£30k
AQUILA FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£25k
REIFER MEMORIAL LIMITED	1	£20k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST HAMPTON WICK	1	£11k
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION	1	£8k
THE GROCERS' CHARITY	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED.

TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.9m
UNITY THEATRE TRUST income £228k
JUSTICE DEFENDERS income £2.1m
THEATRE-RITES income £278k
STERTS ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE income £301k
KEN DODD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £508k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
KESTREL THEATRE COMPANY	£105k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED FY2025	£2.9m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
UNITY THEATRE TRUST FY2025	£228k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
JUSTICE DEFENDERS FY2024	£2.1m	£170,001 - £180,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THEATRE-RITES FY2025	£278k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STERTS ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE FY2024	£301k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.