WIND-UP PENGUIN THEATRE COMPANY

Registered charity 1161255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We bring music-theatre performances and workshops to children in the UK and overseas (who in particular but not exclusively have restricted access to the arts). In 2015, we performed over 40 shows to underprivileged children in Brazil, Peru, and Germany,

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO EDUCATE AND RAISE THE ARTISTIC TASTES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO THE ARTS, THROUGH DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF PROFESSIONAL-STANDARD, ORIGINAL MUSIC-THEATRE PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS.

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

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Policies the charity declares

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• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 31/12/2025 (received 11/11/2026, 11 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 10/11/2024, 10 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elisabeth Ann Eva Swedlund
• Lauren Brown
• Lerato Islam

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

Operates in: Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Brazil · Bulgaria · Colombia · Germany · Greece · India · Jordan · Lebanon · Mexico · Peru

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