STRIKE A LIGHT (GLOUCESTER)

Registered charity 1178449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We use performance, participation and production to make world-changing culture and creativity for all

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND INCREASE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF ALL FORMS OF THE ARTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THEATRE AND DANCE. TO PRESENT, PRODUCE, ORGANISE AND PROMOTE HIGH QUALITY ARTS ACTIVITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £50,066 for the year, which was partly allocated to increase free reserves to £105,000. The trustees report that the organisation has grown its reserves and remains financially viable despite a challenging environment. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were disclosed in the filing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. 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.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Global Streets — “With further thanks to… Global Streets” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Very Reverend Andrew Stephen Zihnichair
• ALISON JANE BYARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELEANOR FAYE LUCY HARRIS
• Jay Anthony Tyler
• Rachael Olivia Bell
• Zara Marie Portlock Whipps

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CHILD LIGHT LIMITED.

• CHILD LIGHT LIMITED income £2.7m
• LANTERN OF LIGHT income £105k
• THE LIFE AND LIGHT MISSIONS income £921k
• LIGHT income £612k
• HEALING JESUS CAMPAIGN LIGHTHOUSE CHAPEL INTERNATIONAL income £2.2m
• LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE income £121k

Side by side with its peers

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