YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 200500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives of the charity are to promote and improve the arts and stimulate public appreciation in such arts. The Trustees have sought to fulfill this objective through the promotion of high quality drama and entertainment centring on productions at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre itself. Such productions have gone on to tour nationally or run in the West End.

Objects

PROMOTING AND IMPROVING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET, OPERA, MUSIC AND THE CINEMA OR ANY OF THEM AND OF STIMULATIONG PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF SUCH ARTS OR ANY OF THEM AND GENERALLY IN THE CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENTS OF PUBLIC TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS OR ANY OF THEM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 transferred all assets and liabilities to a newly incorporated entity in June 2024 and will remain dormant for the foreseeable future. Per the trustees' report, the charity reported a surplus on normal operations of £17,525 for the first two months of the year before the transfer. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 9.1% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN BAMPFYLDE MAchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANDREW FRENCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Geffen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Brunjes · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL MORE MOLYNEUX
• Peter Gordon · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROGER BLACK MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEVEN LEE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vivienne Mather · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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