CURIOUS DIRECTIVE

Registered charity 1144025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5194773 · Wikipedia

curious directive is a theatre company making theatre through the lens of science. Based in a medieval church in the heart of Norwich, we bring together artists, scientists, academics and communities to make emotionally-charged narrative-led devised theatre which tours around the UK and internationally.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.

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: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £63,000 in cash reserves, which amounts to just over 6 months of core operating costs. Per the trustees' report, the charity is dependent on continued support from grant-aiding bodies, having exited the Arts Council England National Portfolio. The total incoming resources for the year were £196,094, with a net surplus of £4,837.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 07287464 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: CURIOUS DIRECTIVE ENTERPRISES LTD Companies House 14098239

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.

• HESTER, Ollie — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• FITZGIBBON, Tiernan — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• GANA, Joana — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• MENDL, Kumiko Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• TZANOVA, Petia — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• LOWE, Jack William Sutherland — director, appointed 17/06/2010not on trustee list
• LOWE, Jack William Sutherland — secretary, appointed 10/09/2022

Official officers record.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (47% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kumiko Elizabeth Mendlchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joana Gana
• Ollie Hester
• Petia Tzanova
• Tiernan Fitzgibbon

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CURIOUS MINDS.

• CURIOUS MINDS income £1.3m
• CURIOUS ARTS income £529k
• WE THE CURIOUS LIMITED income £7.0m
• NTC TOURING THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £174k

Side by side with its peers

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