THE FOLKESTONE - HYTHE OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 1180504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To operate as an amateur theatrical society based at the Tower Theatre in Folkestone Kent; to present a varied and high quality programme of amateur plays and musicals; to encourage outside shows to hire the theatre for their presentations; to involve a wide range of Folkestone residents with the theatre, both as audience and as active participants.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS AND TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £18,535, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £459,724. Per the trustees' report, cash flow remains a concern due to increased loans and irrecoverable VAT, though a legacy expected in 2025 is anticipated to ease the short-term financial position.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Support The Tower Theatre, Folkestone (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Hawkins
• Ben Forrest
• Katherine Sherwood
• MICHAEL PEARCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Manton
• Paul Moran

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HERTFORD DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC SOCIETY.

• HERTFORD DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC SOCIETY income £107k
• FOLIO THEATRE income £125k
• MERLIN THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £270k
• THE LOWESTOFT PLAYERS LIMITED income £169k
• THE STOCK EXCHANGE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC SOCIETY income £157k
• CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE income £20.2m

Side by side with its peers

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