MARINA THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 1149133 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the arts by the development of the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft by providing a wide range of arts and live performance activities befitting Lowestoft audiences and the surrounding area. To promote the presentation of and engagement in the arts for public benefit in the Theatre and in the Lowestoft area.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £70,257 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with free reserves increasing to £250,134. Per the trustees' report, the charity considers it has sufficient reserves to manage the impact of a short theatre closure required for redevelopment works. The trustees confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sam Vallerius — General Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Lowestoft Town Council — “Lowestoft Town Council are our Landlords and principal stakeholders and work with the Marina Theatre Trust to keep our building looking its …” (source page)
• Arts Council England — “We receive support from The National Lottery through Arts Council England for specific projects, for example, our organisational redevelopme…” (source page)
• Great Place Scheme — “Making Waves Together, is a wider partnership project led jointly by Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Waveney District Council, and funded…” (source page)
• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Making Waves Together, is a wider partnership project led jointly by Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Waveney District Council, and funded…” (source page)
• Historic England — “Making Waves Together, is a wider partnership project led jointly by Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Waveney District Council, and funded…” (source page)
• Theatres Trust — “During the pandemic, we were generously awarded a grant from the Theatres Trust’s ‘Theatre Reopening Fund’ to help with the additional costs…” (source page)

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 9.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID BLYTH
• HAZEL CLOVER
• MIKE PINNER
• NORMAN CULLINGFORD
• Robin Rudd Townley

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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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 THE MAYFLOWER THEATRE TRUST.

• THE MAYFLOWER THEATRE TRUST income £28.8m
• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £3.1m
• THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL-TRUSTEES (PORTSMOUTH) LIMITED income £1.4m
• LEICESTER THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £18.5m
• THE BARN THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £243k
• THEATRE@41 LTD income £101k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.