THE ALBANY THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 1151595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALBANY THEATRE

To promote well-being through Arts for Life we Engage,Inspire and Create. Our Objectives: to enrich the cultural life of Coventry; to support and reflect all members of our community; to create for all volunteering and training opportunities to engage with the arts; to provide an inclusive high quality programme that represents all performance-related arts and to make the most of our resources.

Objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £140,690 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in net current liabilities of £149,604. The trustees confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing sufficient funds and support to continue operations for at least 12 months. Reserves policy aims for six months of operating expenses, but free reserves are currently negative.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 31/03/2024 (received 27/08/2025, 208 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/05/2024, 100 days after the 31/01/2024 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 (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 ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MEREDITHchair
• ANTHONY CLIVE BENFIELD GCStJ · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Ian Hardy
• Carol Denise Thomas
• Caroline Francesca Gibbons
• Julie Ashby-Ellis · trustee of 1 other charity
• LAURENCE MOORE
• Sarah Catherine Jordan
• Sherril Judith Ann Donaldson

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ALBANY 2001 COMPANY.

• THE ALBANY 2001 COMPANY income £2.5m
• THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED income £146k
• THEATRE ARTS ACTION TRUST income £208k
• ALBANY TRUST income £48k
• CARLTON LITTLE THEATRE TRUST income £54k
• ACTONE ARTSBASE income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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