BLOC PRODUCTIONS

Registered charity 1195809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(1) To engage the public in the appreciation of dramatic and operatic arts by promoting andperforming musical theatre, or other dramatic works;(2) To educate members of the CIO and the wider community by providing opportunities for themto learn and develop skills in the said arts;(3) To develop leadership, performance and technical opportunities for members of the CIO in thesaid arts;

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS, TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS, TO ASSIST AND FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total loss of £70,943.43 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in closing reserves to £93,977.95 from an opening balance of £97,898.46. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis and that no material issues came to the attention of the independent examiner.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Turasiewicz
• Caroline Northam
• Emma May Bladen Jones
• Graham John Lewis · trustee of 3 other charities
• Ingrid Mengdehl
• Jennifer Foster
• Josephine Phillips
• LUCY POPE
• Peter Michael Jones · trustee of 2 other charities
• Philip Charles Hallworth
• Samuel Davies
• Sophie Thorne

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• OXFORD OPERATIC SOCIETY income £137k
• BLOC PROJECTS income £106k
• SOUTH LONDON THEATRE CENTRE LIMITED income £183k
• SUMMERTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY income £870k
• AD INFINITUM PRODUCTIONS CIO income £407k
• THE STOCK EXCHANGE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC SOCIETY income £157k

Side by side with its peers

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