POLLYANNA TRAINING THEATRE

Registered charity 1124839 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of tuition in drama and performing arts for children and young people

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF TUITION IN DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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

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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £3,053.34 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £22,479. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, although the annual report notes that the charity is currently seeking alternative free storage space due to the renovation of their current premises.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 21/02/2023, 21 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 04/03/2022, 32 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOANN CONDONchair
• AMANDA DAY
• Aoife Tighe
• Jody Dempsey
• KAYE COLMAN

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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