UNANIMA THEATRE

Registered charity 1196242 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNANIMA THEATRE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Unanima is an arts organisation that provides a variety of creative, learning, cultural and campaign opportunities for learning disabled and autistic people, and the wider community, in and around Mansfield & Ashfield

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ART OF DRAMA AND THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING DISABLED AND AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ARTS; (B) THE PRODUCTION AND PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF DRAMATIC WORK PRESENTED AND PERFORMED BY PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES’.2. THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) WORKING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE ARTS ON THE GROUNDS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND? NEURODIVERSITY;(B) EDUCATING AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, IN PARTICULAR BY USING PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS TO CHALLENGE PERCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY;(C) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS’.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000, triggering the requirement for an independent examination. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records, with no material matters coming to their attention. The trustees approved the report in September 2025, indicating standard administrative closure for the financial year ending March 2025.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
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• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Jordanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Lewington
• Ian Bond
• Louise White
• Samantha Holgate-Davey
• Sarah Ann Orton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophie Hack
• William James Farr

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• NOTTINGHAM ARTS THEATRE LIMITED income £370k
• ANGEL SHED THEATRE COMPANY income £197k
• The Autism Assistance Dogs Charity income £1.0m
• Autism Unlimited Limited income £15.6m
• UNITY THEATRE income £630k
• BIRMINGHAM CENTRE FOR ARTS THERAPIES income £489k

Side by side with its peers

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