STEPPING STONE THEATRE

Registered charity 1165525 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

we run a theatre company for people with mental health issues

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE THE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH THROUGHOUT ENGLAND OF ALL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS BY SUPPLYING THEATRE WORKSHOPS AND CREATING SHOWS

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Lindsey, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£62k

Latest spending

£55k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £61,973 and total outgoing expenditure was £56,276, resulting in a surplus. The trustees report that the charity remains open and continues to deliver sessions that meet with success.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: People's Postcode Trust

“People's Postcode Trust £21,000”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 4
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 4
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 3
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

WILLIAM RODGERSchair
CATHERINE HULL RODGERS
Ian Burgess · trustee of 3 other charities
JOHN ELKINGTON
Michelle Leighton
Rev MARK BRISCOE

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£62k	£55k
31/03/2024	£71k	£59k
31/03/2023	£27k	£48k
31/03/2022	£70k	£50k
31/03/2021	£54k	£37k

Common questions

Is STEPPING STONE THEATRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income for the year was £61,973 and total outgoing expenditure was £56,276, resulting in a surplus. The trustees report that the charity remains open and continues to deliver sessions that meet with success.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Postcode Lottery	29/10/2024	£21k	Unrestricted Funding
UK government	27/07/2020	£10k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund	31/05/2019	£10k	Round The Bend
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/04/2018	£10k	IT'S A MAD WORLD workshops rehearsals
The National Lottery Community Fund	08/03/2017	£10k	Stepping Stone Theatre new show 'The Mind is Kind'

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
THE PETER MINET TRUST	1	£35k
THE NISBET TRUST	1	£11k
NEWBY TRUST LIMITED	1	£10k
THE COTTON INDUSTRY WAR MEMORIAL TRUST	1	£10k
QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£10k
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION	1	£8k
THE ALLEN LANE FOUNDATION	1	£6k
THE FENTON ARTS TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP.

STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP income £148k
MUSICAL THEATRE STAFFORD income £143k
STEPPING OUT THEATRE income £114k
STEPPING STONES LEARNING AND LEISURE income £80k
STEPPING STONE PROJECTS income £14.5m
THEATRE-RITES income £278k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
STEPPING STONE THEATRE	£62k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP FY2025	£148k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MUSICAL THEATRE STAFFORD FY2025	£143k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STEPPING OUT THEATRE FY2025	£114k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STEPPING STONES LEARNING AND LEISURE FY2025	£80k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
STEPPING STONE PROJECTS FY2025	£14.5m	—	—	above	—	no doubt

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