CHINA PLATE THEATRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1173766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE ART OF DRAMA.

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Latest income
£752k
Latest spending
£735k
Registered
2017
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted net assets stood at £301,134 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to £297,346 in the prior year. Restricted funds increased to £13,076 from an unspecified prior year level, bringing total net assets to £314,210. The document does not disclose any specific financial health risks or policy targets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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

Total income
£752k
Total spending
£735k
Reserves (reported)
£280k
Employees
10

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 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 (60% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£752k£735k
31/03/2024£789k£855k
31/03/2023£950k£1.2m
31/03/2022£931k£658k
31/03/2021£721k£412k

Common questions

Is CHINA PLATE THEATRE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted net assets stood at £301,134 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to £297,346 in the prior year. Restricted funds increased to £13,076 from an unspecified prior year level, bringing total net assets to £314,210. The document does not disclose any specific financial health risks or policy targets.

Who funds CHINA PLATE THEATRE LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHINA PLATE THEATRE LIMITED as a grant recipient include WE ARE UNLIMITED ARTS, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
WE ARE UNLIMITED ARTSFY2025£10k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITEDFY2022£9kYouth
WE ARE UNLIMITED ARTSFY2024£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/03/2024£10k"Please Do Not Touch"
UK government13/10/2022£254kNational Portfolio Organisations
UK government13/10/2022£254kNational Portfolio Organisations
UK government13/12/2021£254kNational Portfolio Organisations

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUARANTINE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CHINA PLATE THEATRE LIMITED£752k—0unclear—no doubt
QUARANTINE FY2025£373k—0unclear—no doubt
DANTE OR DIE THEATRE LIMITED FY2025£303k——unclear—no doubt
Wonder Arts Limited FY2025£209k—0unclear—noted
YORK CITIZENS' THEATRE TRUST LIMITED FY2025£4.5m——above—no doubt
THE HANDLEBARDS CIO FY2025£292k——unclear—no doubt

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