ECLIPSE THEATRE COMPANY LTD

Registered charity 1146907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECLIPSE THEATRE

The business plan has developed strategy on how the company delivers a quality and exciting artistic programme for 2018 - 2022, whilst building its resilience and sustainability. The vision, mission and company values are to to advance the arts for the public benefit through the promotion of, in particular, but not exclusively, the art of drama.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ART OF DRAMA.

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: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an unrestricted deficit of £24,020 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a decision in May 2024 to close the organisation. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds free reserves of £383,444 and is currently putting plans in place to distribute remaining assets and proceed to strike-off from Companies House and the Charity Commission.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 05/03/2026, 33 days after the 31/01/2026 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): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maxwell Mutanda · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nick Ahad
• Robert Alderson
• Sophia Margaret Parker

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

Operates in: Netherlands · Portugal · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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