PEOPLE'S PALACE PROJECTS

Registered charity 1085607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities: Practice-based research to advance the practice and understanding of art for social justice. Charitable objects: the advancement of education & the relief of poverty anywhere in the world, in particular by the use of the medium of theatre to promote social welfare & to facilitate development projects for the benefit of the public whether directly or in partnership.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small overall surplus of £6,808, driven by a surplus on restricted funds which offset a deficit on unrestricted funds. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £132,906, which the trustees monitor quarterly to ensure the organization remains a going concern. The filing notes that revenue funding from Arts Council England has been confirmed until March 2027, providing assurance of core funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — People's Palace Projects (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Heritage — Founder (source)
• Thiago Jesus — Co-Director (source)
• Mariana Steffen — Co-Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Public Funding — “SUPPORTED USING PUBLIC FUNDING BY” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% 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: 12.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Mary Sutton
• CATRIN JOHN
• Cristiane Fontes
• Karim Mijal
• Professor Penny Green
• Professor Scott McCracken
• Rowena Lesley Dean
• Shane Boyle

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

Operates in: Argentina · Brazil · Colombia · India · Italy · Pakistan · Peru · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEOPLE'S THEATRE ARTS GROUP LIMITED.

• PEOPLE'S THEATRE ARTS GROUP LIMITED income £345k
• WOTTON ARTS PROJECT income £102k
• HODDESDON (COMMUNITY) SOCIETY OF PERFORMING ARTS LTD. income £319k
• SOUTH LONDON THEATRE CENTRE LIMITED income £183k
• DONMAR WAREHOUSE PROJECTS LIMITED income £10.1m
• FORCED ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED income £724k

Side by side with its peers

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