CREWE AMATEUR MUSICALS SOCIETY (CAMS)

Registered charity 1212565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMS

CAMS provide volunteer musical theatre performance opportunities for people in Crewe/surrounding area, providing our members with performance skills, confidence, social interaction and employability skills. Crewe is a disadvantaged area - where few professional musical theatre touring companies perform. We enable the local community to access this valuable art form affordably.

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 COMMITTEE 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a significant loss of £19,595 for the period, resulting in a closing unrestricted fund balance of £3,503. The trustees have responded by pausing full-scale productions and focusing on fundraising and financial recovery to rebuild reserves. The charity is currently in a consolidation phase with plans to return to full-scale production in 2028.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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 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
• 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

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HEATHER MARGARET CLARK-WILKINSONchair
• Adam Simpson
• Andrea Lyon
• Angela Richardson
• Joyce Gwendolyne Walker
• Lisa Jane Humphries
• Luke Billington
• Marcus Oliver Dolman
• Margaret Ann Taylor
• Mollie Slinn
• Peter Nicholas Horsley
• Rebecca Caroline Causley

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMPASS COMMUNITY ARTS.

• COMPASS COMMUNITY ARTS income £46k
• CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY ARTS income £172k
• CAMUS PRODUCTIONS income £32k
• CROWTHORNE MUSICAL PLAYERS income £55k
• CAMCARE UK income £50k
• SCRUM THEATRE income £169k

Side by side with its peers

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