STEPPING OUT THEATRE
Registered charity 1179310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STEPPING OUT THEATRE COMPANY
Founded in 1997 and based in Bristol, we are the country's leading mental health theatre group. We produce a wide range of plays on mental health themes. We are open to people who have used mental health services and their allies. The group offers mental health service users the opportunity to work alongside people with professional experience of writing, directing and acting,
Causes: Education/training · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell to £4,354.61 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from the previous year's £18,654.28, due to total expenditure exceeding total income. However, the trustees describe this low level as temporary, noting that unrestricted funding was due and reserves were on target from March 2025 onwards.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: half of the charity’s annual income (held: £4k)
“it is Stepping Out Theatre’s policy to have reserves set at a maximum of half of the charity’s annual income.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The document states Geoff Innoles, a trustee, was a professional printer who did printing for the charity and videoed performances, rarely charging much if at all. It also notes a redundancy payment to a former CEO and a vehicle transfer related to that settlement, but does not explicitly state the former CEO was a trustee or related party in the transaction details provided.
“As a professional printer he did all of our printing, rarely charging much if at all, he also videoed our performances.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stepping Out Theatre (matched by registered charity number).
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Elisabeth Winkler's higher education institution — “Elisabeth Winkler is offering four writing for wellbeing workshops to Stepping Out Theatre, thanks to funding from her higher education inst…” (source page)
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
- DANANN McALEER
- Dr Susan Chambers
- EMMA STADON
- Maria Falzetti · trustee of 3 other charities
- Maureen Ramsay
- Ravi Kullar
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is STEPPING OUT THEATRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell to £4,354.61 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from the previous year's £18,654.28, due to total expenditure exceeding total income. However, the trustees describe this low level as temporary, noting that unrestricted funding was due and reserves were on target from March 2025 onwards. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds STEPPING OUT THEATRE?
Funders whose own accounts filings name STEPPING OUT THEATRE as a grant recipient include NEWBY TRUST LIMITED, THE NISBET TRUST, THE MERCHANT VENTURERS CHARITY.
Known funders
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