SOUTHPAW DANCE PRODUCTIONS

Registered charity 1198031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of the arts, in particular the art of dance, for the public benefit by educating and raising awareness of the diversity of participatory art forms, through means including the development and delivery of programmes of cross-artform workshops, events and performances.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF DANCE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY EDUCATING AND RAISING AWARENESS OF THE DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPATORY ART FORMS, THROUGH MEANS INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF PROGRAMMES OF CROSS-ARTFORM WORKSHOPS, EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES.

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: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted surplus of £47,815 for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing its total unrestricted reserves to that same figure. The trustees' reserves policy targets £60,000, meaning the current free unrestricted reserves of £23,126 are below the stated policy target. The charity is a wholly owned subsidiary of Southpaw Dance Company Limited and operates under an independent examiner's report rather than a full audit.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: SOUTHPAW DANCE COMPANY LTD Companies House 09689048 · Financial health read from its filings

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jill McKinneychair
• Michelle Hudson
• Paul Long
• Professor John Girkin
• Tresor Bukasa

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHERN DANCE.

• NORTHERN DANCE income £87k
• SPRINGS DANCE COMPANY income £153k
• PAVILION DANCE SOUTH WEST LIMITED income £1.1m
• AUTIN DANCE THEATRE CIO income £433k
• IMPERMANENCE DANCE THEATRE income £304k
• DANCE CONSORTIUM LIMITED income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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