LOS MUSICAL THEATRE

Registered charity 1148609 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEWES OPERATIC SOCIETY

Activities include educating the public in the dramatic and operatic arts and to further the development of public appreciation by the performance of musical performances. Also the education of young people under 16 to be able to perform in such performances.

Objects

The objects of the Society are: a. to educate the public in the performing arts, and to further the development of public appreciation and taste in the said arts, by the performance of musical productions; b. for the public benefit to promote the education and training of members (or past members) in such ways as the charity trustees see fit, including awarding to such person’s scholarships or grants tenable at any university, college or institution in relation to the performing arts.

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: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an excess of income over expenditure of £7,271 for the year ended 31 July 2025. Total receipts amounted to £61,103, while total expenditure was £53,832. The closing balance of cash funds and other assets stood at £57,465.

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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN REYNOLDSchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER GARRATT
• DAVID HACKETT
• Katherine Louise Toomer
• Lucy Marnie Newth
• MARK GREENWOOD
• NICHOLAS HAZLE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Olivia Sophie Rose Surgey

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA.

• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• MUSICAL THEATRE SALISBURY income £100k
• MELLOW DRAMATICS MUSIC THEATRE GROUP income £74k
• YORK MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY income £29k
• THE BELPER MUSICAL THEATRE income £38k
• THE LOFT THEATRE COMPANY income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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