TRURO AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY LTD

Registered charity 1129566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Staging local theatrical productions involving its members and other local people, including children. These productions include musicals, plays and operetta. The society aims to improve and educate the public taste in these arts with the object of raising funds to be devoted solely to charitable purposes.

Objects

1. TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DRAMA, AND IN PARTICULAR, TOCULTIVATE THE PERFORMING ARTS AND IMPROVE TASTE IN THOSE ARTS.2. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT, THE SOCIETY SHALL PROMOTE THE PRODUCTION OF DRAMATICAND OPERATIC WORKS HAVING AN EDUCATIONAL VALUE, AND WITH THE FURTHER OBJECT OFRAISING FUNDS (A) TO BE DEVOTED SOLELY TO CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AND (B), SPECIFICALLYFOR THE MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIETY'S OWN PREMISES FORPERFORMANCE AND REHEARSAL FACILITIES FOR THE SOCIETY'S OWN, AND GENERAL PUBLICCOMMUNITY USE, AND3. TO DO ALL SUCH THINGS AS SHALL BE CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS,AND TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN A COMMUNITY SPIRIT WITHIN THE TRURO AREA.

Area of benefit: TRURO AREA.

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £20,341 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds reaching £100,462. The trustees consider the ideal level of cash reserves to be £25,000, and confirmed that cash reserves were above this target at £40,464. The trustees are confident to continue operating as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 28/12/2023, 58 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kenneth Polmounterchair
• Amanda Jane Gibson
• Andrew John Gendall
• Dorothy Ann Tremayne
• Jordan Truscott
• Joy Lockley
• LIESEL PARRIS
• Patricia Claire Harding · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall

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• NATIONAL OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• WALTON AND WEYBRIDGE AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY income £55k
• BRIDLINGTON AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £72k
• SHARNBROOK AMATEUR THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £102k
• ABINGDON OPERATIC SOCIETY income £96k
• MANOR MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY income £49k

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