STERTS ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1189424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maintaining and managing Sterts Theatre. Providing educational opportunities and facilities/promoting public interest in the dramatic and related arts.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES PARTICULARLY THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DRAMA.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £130,020 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven largely by the spend of restricted funds related to new theatre construction and depreciation. While unrestricted free reserves stood at £25,371, the trustees have disclosed a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to risks including reduced funding opportunities and the financial health of its trading subsidiary, Sterts Theatre CIC.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sterts (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~21.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (48% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Harris
• Ben James Harrison
• Dr Jeanie Sinclair
• Nicholas Buckland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jane Williamson

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED.

• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
• STOS THEATRE COMPANY income £88k
• PUTNEY ARTS THEATRE income £316k
• THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £1.4m
• Prince Henry's, Evesham, Arts Theatre Trust income £120k
• TRINITY THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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