TRING ARTS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1147983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COURT THEATRE LTD, CTL, TAT

By offering grants the Charity encourages an appreciation of the Arts in Tring and the surrounding areas through a variety of performing arts, theatrical productions and artistic excellence, both amateur and professional. It also aims to provide opportunities for volunteers, particularly young people, to be trained in and gain practical experience in a variety of theatrical technical skills.

Objects

TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION OF THE COURT THEATRE, TRING, A COMMUNITY THEATRE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING EDUCATION, TO THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS AND ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,789 for the year ended 31 August 2025, a reversal from the previous year's surplus. Despite this operating loss, the charity maintains strong unrestricted reserves of £189,944, which the trustees describe as a strong position to fulfil its charitable objectives. The entity is run entirely by volunteers and has no employees.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 06978781
• Trading subsidiary: COURT THEATRE CATERING LTD. Companies House 07625341

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.

• ASHMAN, Peter Jonathan — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
• PLAXTON, Ruth Emily — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
• RHYS, David Ieuan — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
• CULLEN, Elizabeth Carol — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
• RUSSON, Nicholas Christopher — director, appointed 22/07/2024on trustee list
• EVANS, Antony James — director, appointed 22/07/2024on trustee list
• GOWER, Ian Brian — director, appointed 22/07/2024on trustee list
• MATTEY, Stephen Richard — director, appointed 30/08/2023not on trustee list
• FARROW, Jacqueline — director, appointed 11/10/2019on trustee list
• MUIRHEAD, Ian Glyn — director, appointed 03/08/2009on trustee list
• BROWN, Raymond William — director, appointed 03/08/2009on trustee list
• FARROW, Jacqueline — secretary, appointed 11/11/2019

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steve Matteychair
• Antony James Evans
• David Ieuan Rhys
• Elizabeth Carol Cullen
• IAN MUIRHEAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Brian Gower
• Jacqueline Farrow
• Nicholas Christopher Russon
• Peter Jonathan Ashman · trustee of 1 other charity
• RAYMOND WILLIAM BROWN
• Ruth Emily Plaxton
• Ruth Salsbury

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRING TOGETHER LIMITED.

• TRING TOGETHER LIMITED income £108k
• THE COMPANY PRESENTS LIMITED income £36k
• TRINITY THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.2m
• PETHERTON ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
• TROWBRIDGE TOWN HALL TRUST LTD income £363k

Side by side with its peers

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