ACTING FOR OTHERS

Registered charity 1202961 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Acting for Others (formerly The Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council - Acting fro Others) provides financial and emotional support to all in the theatrical professions in times of need through a network of 14 member charities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(A) TO FURTHER THE WORK OF THE MEMBERS BY OPERATING AS AN UMBRELLA ORGANISATION FOR CHARITIES OPERATING IN THE THEATRICAL PROFESSIONS BY: (I) RECEIVING MONIES DONATED FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES, INCLUDING LIFETIME AND TESTAMENTARY DONATIONS,(II) RAISING MONEY OR OTHER FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, AND(III) MAKING DONATIONS TO THE MEMBERS AT SUCH TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT. (B) NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE.

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 net expenditure of £113,412 for the year, resulting in a decrease in free reserves from £252,367 to £138,955. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due and identified no material uncertainties regarding its going concern status.

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.

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
• 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
• 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)

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 — Acting for Others (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Btchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Ben Seale
• James Coombes
• Petra Siniawski
• WILLIAM DIFFER

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ACTORS' BENEVOLENT FUND.

• THE ACTORS' BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.9m
• ONE FROM THE HEART income £141k
• ACTIVATE PERFORMING ARTS income £642k
• LITTLE ACTORS THEATRE COMPANY income £57k
• THEATRE CHAPLAINCY UK income £33k
• THE ACTORS' CHILDREN'S TRUST income £219k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.