BLIND SUMMIT EDUCATION

Registered charity 1150425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLIND SUMMIT THEATRE

Blind Summit provides high quality puppetry for audiences of adults and young people through performance, collaborations and education and training opportunities throughout the UK and the world.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ARTS OF DRAMA AND PUPPETRY

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £20,546 for the year, resulting in a deficit compared to the previous year's £91,886. Despite this operational loss, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £208,587, which the trustees report are maintained in line with their reserves policy of holding six months of budgeted overheads.

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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07827214

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.

• ARNOLD, Fiona Jane Lempriere, Dr — director, appointed 11/04/2023on trustee list
• FIGGIS, Benedict Allen — director, appointed 11/04/2023on trustee list
• GOODENOUGH-BAYLY, Nicholas David — director, appointed 11/04/2023on trustee list
• SIMMONS, Sarah — director, appointed 11/04/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benedict Allen Howard Figgis
• Fiona Jane Lempriere Arnold
• Nicholas David Goodenough-Bayly
• Sarah Simmons

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

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Belgium · China · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · France · Germany · Hungary · Israel · Italy

Income and spending

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