COLLECTIVE ENCOUNTERS

Registered charity 1105790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Collective Encounters is a small professional arts organisation specialising in theatre as a tool for social change.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS, AND PARTICULARLY THE ART OF THEATRE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, BY THE PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF THEATRICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY BASED PERFORMANCES, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON NEW WORKS PRODUCED BY THE COMPANY OR COMMISSIONED BY THIRD PARTIES;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF THEATRE BY THE PROMOTION OF DRAMA TRAINING CLASSES AND/OR WORKSHOPS.

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: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing resource of £33,596 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £87,137 to £80,221. Total resources on the balance sheet fell to £93,757, while the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Valeria Guarneros-Mezachair
• Amber-Page Marilyn Moss
• Anya Winful
• Catherine Ellen Foley
• Hannah Baumeister
• Johanna Marie Schweier
• Kate Rose Elder Fuller
• Mariam Abood

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Together Collective.

• Together Collective income £717k
• THE COMPANY income £63k
• COMPASS COMMUNITY ARTS income £46k
• WALES COMMUNITY THEATRE PLAYERS income £58k
• CREATIVE CONNECTED COMMUNITIES income £115k
• NEW VENTURE PRODUCTIONS income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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