CONEY LTD

Registered charity 1156864 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONEY

Coney makes interactive theatre - creating games, adventures and play where people can choose to take a meaningful part. Our work takes place anywhere that people gather providing great art for everyone; in theatres, schools, museums, on the streets and online. We offer bespoke development support to artists, makers and game designers.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in the process of closing, with the 2025 accounts expected to be the final ones. Per the trustees' report, the decision to close followed changes to the funding structure and the transition out of the Arts Council England's National Portfolio, leading to a difficult decision that the charity cannot continue to operate.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (70% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sydney George Colin Nashchair
• Annette Corbett
• Benjamin Charles Payne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lydia Hayes
• Philip Henry Clark
• Simon Michaels

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 ICON THEATRE.

• ICON THEATRE income £505k
• THE CONWY ARTS TRUST income £149k
• COTTON SHED THEATRE COMPANY income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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