PHOENIX THEATRE (BLYTH)

Registered charity 1149700 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities for recreation and leisure in the arts field, specifically theatre, including dance, music and other artistic outlets

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE INTEREST AND EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF BLYTH VALLEY, BY MANAGING AND MAINTAINING A THEATRE IN BLYTH KNOWN AS 'THE PHOENIX THEATRE' AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRODUCTION, PROMOTION, PRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PLAYS, MUSICAL THEATRE, SINGING AND DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND BY THE PROVISION OR PRODUCTION ANY OTHER ARTISTIC WORKS;TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE RESIDING IN THE SAID AREA AND ELSEWHERE

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: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Phoenix Theatre Blyth maintained a stable financial position with total income of £503,033 and total expenditure of £193,278. The trustees report confidence in the charity's future, noting plans to invest in staff, infrastructure, and community programmes while managing ongoing financial pressures in the cultural sector.

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 3 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/02/2023, 3 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID GEORGE GARRETTchair
• ALISON THOBURN
• David Andrew McSparron
• PAUL BRIAN WORTH
• Robert Vincent Nixon

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

Operates in: Northumberland

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 THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY.

• THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY income £45k
• BLYTH MUSIC AND THEATRE COMPANY income £29k
• THE PHOENIX THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE income £285k
• THE PHOENIX TRUST (MILTON) LTD income £256k
• Kiln Theatre income £4.0m
• THEATRE@41 LTD income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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