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,

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE THE CONDITIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THEATRE.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH IN ORDER TO RAISE THEIR AWARENESS, BY PRODUCING PLAYS WHICH DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE AND COUNTER NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS AND THEIR ALLIES TO DEVELOP THEIR CREATIVE TALENTS, BUILD SUPPORTIVE NETWORKS AND PRODUCE HIGH QUALITY THEATRE ON MENTAL HEALTH THEMES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Recreation · 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 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

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.

• 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
• 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

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEPPING STONE THEATRE.

• STEPPING STONE THEATRE income £62k
• OUTSIDE EDGE THEATRE COMPANY income £268k
• RISING STARS THEATRE COMPANY income £30k
• JUMPED UP THEATRE income £242k
• UNFOLDING THEATRE income £221k
• STANDOUT PROGRAMMES income £953k

Side by side with its peers

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