PUTNEY ARTS THEATRE

Registered charity 1157481 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q28803231 · Wikipedia · also known as GROUP 64 YOUTH THEATRE/PUTNEY THEATRE COMPANY

Putney Arts Theatre benefits the public through the advancement of the arts and also young people by providing educational opportunities focused on the arts and drama in particular.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 3.1.1 TO ADVANCE THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY THE MEDIUM OF DRAMA, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND 3.1.2 TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE MEDIUM OF DRAMA AND THE ASSOCIATED ARTS, SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net overall deficit of £3,685 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the previous year. Reserves excluding the freehold building stood at £52,434, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £70,000 for the revenue reserve.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Lottery/Arts Council — “gaining the freehold in the late 1990s with the help of a Lottery/Arts Council grant.” (source page)

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Elizabeth Anderson Cablechair
• Ajay Shah
• Elanne Brooks
• Henry Lawrence Holmes
• Maureen Szymala
• Paloma Ferreira Lisboa
• Roopak Radia
• Simon Crump
• Tamsin Sasha Mortimer
• Thomas Edward Rycroft · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy St John Iredale
• Tom Alexander Sainsbury

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITY THEATRE.

• UNITY THEATRE income £630k
• Prince Henry's, Evesham, Arts Theatre Trust income £120k
• POLLYANNA TRAINING THEATRE income £103k
• PIONEER THEATRES LIMITED income £4.3m
• PETHERTON ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• Theatre Porto income £572k

Side by side with its peers

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