GOOD CHANCE THEATRE

Registered charity 1166833 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We use the power of theatre to change lives and change minds. With displaced artists centre-stage, we bring people together through theatre and art to create surprising stories that spark new conversations and encourage action on complex urgent issues of our time; migration, climate crisis and polarisation. We have delivered 550 events globally and reached 1.1m audience members and participants.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,527,429, resulting in an overall surplus of £424,201. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £413,391, which the trustees consider to be within their stated prudent target range of £300,000 to £600,000. Per the trustees' report, funding has been secured for the future, and the auditors confirmed 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 audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Naomi Popli — Executive Director (source)
• Stephen Daldry — Chair (source)
• Joe Murphy — Co-Artistic Director (source)
• Joe Robertson — Co-Artistic Director (source)
• Emily Webb — Interim Director (source)
• Elias Matar — Deputy Artistic Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust — “The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust” (source page)
• Bertha Artivism Awards Foundation — “Bertha Artivism Awards Foundation” (source page)
• Blavatnik Family Foundation — “Blavatnik Family Foundation” (source page)
• Bloomberg Philanthropies — “Bloomberg Philanthropies” (source page)
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation — “Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation” (source page)
• Clore Duffield Foundation — “Clore Duffield Foundation” (source page)
• The Dandu Family Foundation — “The Dandu Family Foundation” (source page)
• Distracted Globe Foundation — “Distracted Globe Foundation” (source page)
• Emily’s Garden Foundation — “Emily’s Garden Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Daldrychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anirudh Mathur
• Gemma White
• Hiran Abeysekera
• Jeffrey Culpepper
• Majid Akhondzadeh-Darjazi Mr
• Natalia Kaliada
• Phoebe Elisabeth Reith
• SONIA FRIEDMAN
• Susan Witherow

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Belgium · Birmingham City · Coventry City · France · Germany · Greece · Italy · Kent · Manchester City · Mexico · Netherlands

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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Side by side with its peers

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