BURY ST EDMUNDS THEATRE MANAGEMENT LIMITED

Registered charity 242977 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THEATRE ROYAL BURY ST EDMUNDS

The Theatre Royal promotes professional Drama, Dance, Opera and Music in Suffolk from its home - an historic restored Regency theatre. A National Trust property (grade 1 listed) and an important heritage attraction, we present and produce and tour high quality drama and run an integrated education and community programme. The venue is used regularly by community groups and schools.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING AND TO FORMULATE PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £244,426, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £420,000. Despite this, the auditors confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing assured funding support and strong audience numbers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Alfred Williams Charitable Trust — “Funders & Trusts The Alfred Williams Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Georgia Kempchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Max Braverman
• Dr Sumathai Sundram
• Elizabeth Michie
• Joanna Bradbury
• Joanne Jeanette Howlett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Ann Thomson

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 NEW THEATRE ROYAL-TRUSTEES (PORTSMOUTH) LIMITED.

• THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL-TRUSTEES (PORTSMOUTH) LIMITED income £1.4m
• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £3.1m
• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m
• NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £16.3m
• THE KINGS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £5.7m
• BRENTWOOD THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £178k

Side by side with its peers

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