WISE CHILDREN LIMITED

Registered charity 1178358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Emma Rice Company

Wise Children is a new theatre company conceived, created and led by multi award-winning director Emma Rice. Wise Children create landmark work with exceptional artists, challenge outmoded theatre touring models, train the next generation of creative practitioners, and discover the creative spaces of the future.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2) TO PROMOTE THE ARTS GENERALLY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CREATING AND TOURING THEATRICAL WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £75,922 on a turnover of £1,951,180, with unrestricted reserves standing at £451,609. The trustees consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis, citing confirmed Arts Council England funding to March 2028 and a cash position that supports continued operations for at least 12 months. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting £400,000 in general reserves, which it currently exceeds.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2025) → 3 (FY2026).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Review: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES by the Emma Rice Company at The Lucky Chance Theatre, Frome - StageTalk Magazine - stagetalkmagazine.com · 28/11/2025

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Rice — Artistic Director (source)
• Clare Reddington — Chair (source)
• Poppy Keeling — Executive Director (source)
• Simon Baker — Creative Director (source)
• Laura Keefe — Associate Director & Head Of Training (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLARE REDDINGTONchair
• ASHUTOSH ANANT KHANDEKAR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Brodie · trustee of 3 other charities
• Irma Lorna Inniss
• Judith Dimant
• Kane Husbands
• Simon Peter Inch
• Yuko Thomas

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KIDS R US COMMUNITY PROJECT.

• KIDS R US COMMUNITY PROJECT income £69k
• WIGAN LITTLE THEATRE income £264k
• Creative Kids Centre income £173k
• WYSING ARTS CHARITY income £863k
• Wise Music Foundation income £33k
• RTYDS LIMITED income £509k

Side by side with its peers

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