THE WARDROBE THEATRE

Registered charity 1177812 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF PERFORMING ARTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS, THROUGH THE OPERATION, FACILITATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE WARDROBE THEATRE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TAKING PLACE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN, THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF PERFORMING ARTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS, THROUGH THE OPERATION, FACILITATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE WARDROBE THEATRE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TAKING PLACE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN, THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £37,216 for the year, reducing unrestricted reserves to £44,517. This figure is below the trustees' stated policy target of £53,000, which represents three months of normal operating costs. However, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern, citing confirmed future support from key funders and advanced ticket sales for the upcoming financial year.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Phillip Gereard Maguirechair
• Caitlin Anniss · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Watson
• Lydia Scott
• Natasha Bergg
• Ryan Wilce
• Susanna Amato

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CROWN WHARF THEATRE.

• THE CROWN WHARF THEATRE income £94k
• KIRKLEES THEATRE TRUST income £1.8m
• BARREL ORGAN income £78k
• BROS THEATRE COMPANY income £55k
• THEATRE WORKS income £159k
• WICKHAM THEATRE TRUST income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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