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Registered charity 1086571 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The company's principal activity is to advance education for the public benefit by the promotion of the arts, in particular but not exclusively, the art of drama.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small deficit of £1,797, a significant improvement against the projected budget shortfall. Free reserves stood at £94,067, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet financial obligations given their policy of holding six months of administration costs. The charity remains dependent on Arts Council England funding and trust donations to sustain its core creative programme.

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 5 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03786895

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.

• WINNING, Matthew Alan, Dr — director, appointed 02/07/2026on trustee list
• HUXLEY, Claire Louise, Ms. — director, appointed 19/12/2024on trustee list
• DUBERRY, Cynthia, Ms. — director, appointed 07/10/2024on trustee list
• DICKINSON, Rebekka, Mrs. — director, appointed 07/10/2024on trustee list
• PAINES, Alison Jane Sargent — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• FAGON, Sophie — director, appointed 07/11/2023on trustee list
• BURR, Stephen David — director, appointed 07/11/2023on trustee list
• DONG, Joanna — director, appointed 02/03/2023on trustee list
• HASSALL, Matthew Michael — director, appointed 03/11/2021not on trustee list
• STANISH, Helen Elizabeth O'Hanlon — director, appointed 03/11/2021on trustee list
• SCOTT, Sophie Kerttu, Prof — director, appointed 25/02/2019on trustee list
• HOLTON, Jennifer — secretary, appointed 13/12/2023

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Sophie Kerttu Scottchair
• Alison Sargent Paines
• Claire Louise Huxley
• Cynthia Duberry
• Helen Elizabeth O'Hanlon Stanish
• Jack Hunter Nicholson
• Joanna Dong
• Matt Hassall
• Matthew Winning
• Rebekka Dickinson
• Sophie Fagon
• Stephen David Burr · trustee of 2 other charities
• Timothy Michael Edward Bell

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

Operates in: China · Luxembourg · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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