THE COMPANY

Registered charity 1163093 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Company is an arts organisation that works primarily through theatre, specialising in site-specific, site-responsive and community led projects. The Company also develops projects alongside small groups of people with different needs, creating plays that reflect the participants' lives and aspirations. The Company works in the south east of England.

Objects

TO IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND ADVANCE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF ART, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN PERFORMANCE ART INCLUDING DRAMATIC, MUSICAL, PERFORMANCE, LITERARY AND VISUAL ARTS, THROUGH CREATING LIVE AND RECORDED PRODUCTIONS IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS INCLUDING RELATED HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECTS.

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: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£63k

Latest spending

£18k

Registered

2015

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £55,901 against an informal policy target of £1,500. The charity reported total income of £25,841 and total expenditure of £36,982 for the period, resulting in a net decrease in funds.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: informal policy to hold a reserve of £1,500 of unrestricted funds (held: £56k)

“The Company has an informal policy to hold a reserve of £1,500 of unrestricted funds in The Company’s bank account at the end of the financial year in order to cover annual running costs (e.g. insurance and accountancy costs for the next financial year).” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Complaints handling
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

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

National Lottery Heritage Fund — “This work has been commissioned as a flagship project of the DLWP's National Lottery Heritage Fund Activity Plan..” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

CHRISTOPHER SHEFFIELD
Christopher Geoffrey Dixon
Christopher Ronald Dixon

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Kent · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£63k	£18k
31/08/2024	£26k	£37k
31/08/2023	£26k	£9k
31/08/2022	£42k	£78k
31/08/2021	£40k	£16k

Common questions

Is THE COMPANY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £55,901 against an informal policy target of £1,500. The charity reported total income of £25,841 and total expenditure of £36,982 for the period, resulting in a net decrease in funds. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
JOHN LYON'S CHARITY	1	£150k
BACKSTAGE TRUST	1	£100k
JERWOOD FOUNDATION	1	£30k
PETER STORMONTH DARLING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£28k
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	1	£21k
THE MARTIN BOWLEY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
THE BARBARA WARD CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	1	£18k
THE ALAN EDWARD HIGGS CHARITY	1	£9k

Charities like this

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

THE COMPANY PRESENTS LIMITED income £36k
THEATRE WORKS income £159k
THE THEATRE COMPANY BLAH BLAH BLAH income £81k
THE OPEN THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £903k
ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.7m
TRAM SHED THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £158k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE COMPANY	£63k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE COMPANY PRESENTS LIMITED FY2025	£36k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THEATRE WORKS FY2026	£159k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE THEATRE COMPANY BLAH BLAH BLAH FY2025	£81k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE OPEN THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED FY2025	£903k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED FY2026	£2.7m	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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