THE ROPETACKLE CENTRE TRUST

Registered charity 1109381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCT, ROPETACKLE

Promoting arts for the public benefit, promotion and advancement of education and the cultivation and improvement of public education in drama, mime, opera, singing, music, dance, painting and sculpture, cinema, literature and other arts.

Objects

THE OBJECTS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE PRIMARY OBJECTS") FOR WHICH THE TRUST IS ESTABLISHED ARE:I) THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND THE CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN DRAMA, MIME, OPERA, SINGING, MUSIC, DANCE, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, CINEMA, LITERATURE AND THE OTHER ARTS;II) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ADUR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: ADUR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Adur, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £4,078 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,097,529 and total expenditure of £1,101,607. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £336,416, which is above the stated policy target of retaining at least £200,000. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties related to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Galloways Accounting. 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martin Allen — Chairman (source)
• Anne Hodgson — Artistic Director (source)
• David Scott — Finance 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER MARTIN ALLENchair
• ANNE HODGSON
• Christine Mary Gunter
• David Ronald Scott
• Ebou Touray
• LOUISE JANE DURRANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Phillips
• Nicholas David Neale
• Rosalind Julie Turner
• SHEILA VIVIEN PARKER

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KIRKLEES THEATRE TRUST.

• KIRKLEES THEATRE TRUST income £1.8m
• WRONGSEMBLE income £146k
• TURTLE KEY ARTS CENTRE TRUST income £738k
• GLADSTONE THEATRE TRUST income £386k
• RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED income £5.1m
• THE KOPPEL PROJECT income £845k

Side by side with its peers

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