BALLET LORENT LIMITED

Registered charity 1162921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BALLETLORENT

To promote, maintain, improve and advance public education, particularly by promoting and encouraging the arts of modern dance and other performing arts.To create highly participatory contemporary dance theatre productions for children, families and adults.To address the inequality of engagement in dance.To cultive a positive environment for dance in the north east of England.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING THE ARTS OF CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSICAL BALLET, DANCE AND OTHER PERFORMING ARTS

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: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £8,995 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £419,546 to £410,551. Per the trustees' report, free reserves total £266,174, which exceeds the stated minimum policy target of £150,000. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Investing charity funds 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)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Alexander Francis Johnstonchair
• Alexander Robert Croft
• Catherine Miriam Harte
• Dr Catherine El Zerbi
• Janet Archer
• Mark Stephen Dunphy
• Neville Stuart Campbell

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED.

• BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED income £3.2m
• RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED income £5.1m
• GWENT BALLET THEATRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• RAMBERT SCHOOL OF BALLET AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE income £3.5m
• THE LONDON BALLET CIRCLE income £33k
• Yorkshire Ballet Seminars income £381k

Side by side with its peers

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