THE ABINGDON PASSION PLAY

Registered charity 1183512 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Abingdon Passion Play was set up to provide the town of Abingdon on Thames and surrounding communities with dramatic representations of an aspect of the life of Christ. Planning and staging a Community Passion Play roughly once every 3 years, the charity carries out fund raising in the build up to the event in order to cover the costs associated with staging it.

Objects

“TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE ABINGDON AREA MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING RELIGIOUS NARRATIVES AND/OR DOCTRINES THROUGH PRODUCING AND PERFORMING MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL LITURGY.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHARITIES ACT 2011."

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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Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£0
Latest spending
£765
Registered
2019

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Government income: £500 — grants £500 (1); 4% of the £11,587 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 01/10/2024, 93 days after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£0£765
31/08/2024£12k£19k
31/08/2023£5k£2k
31/08/2022£856£233
31/08/2021£0£0