HEADLONG THEATRE LIMITED

Registered charity 267965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANVIL PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, OXFORD STAGE COMPANY LIMITED

Headlong Theatre is one of the United Kingdom's leading touring theatre companies.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a planned surplus of £136,159 and unrestricted reserves of £748,864. The trustees confirm that these reserves are in line with their policy, which requires a minimum of five months' operating costs (£284,504). The auditor's report confirms the financial statements give a true and fair view and identifies no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Holly Race Roughan — Artistic Director (source)
• Lisa Maguire — Executive Director (source)
• Kathy Bourne — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Backstage Trust — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust” (source page)
• Buffini Chao — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao” (source page)
• Cockayne - Grants for the Arts — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao Cockayne - Grants for the Arts” (source page)
• John Ellerman Foundation — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao Cockayne - Grants for the Arts John Ellerman Foundation” (source page)
• Garrick Charitable Trust — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao Cockayne - Grants for the Arts John Ellerman Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Idlewild Trust — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao Cockayne - Grants for the Arts John Ellerman Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust Idlew…” (source page)
• Noel Coward — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao Cockayne - Grants for the Arts John Ellerman Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust Idlew…” (source page)
• Old Possum’s Practical Trust — “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust Buffini Chao Cockayne - Grants for the Arts John Ellerman Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust Idlew…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katherine Dickenschair
• Claire Helen Heaney
• Jacqueline Mary Hurt
• Lucinda Harvey
• Patrick Dillon
• Prime Isaac
• Rhashan Stone · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE LIMITED.

• ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE LIMITED income £1.2m
• HULL TRUCK THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.5m
• FINBOROUGH THEATRE income £141k
• HEAD2HEAD THEATRE income £221k
• THEATRE-RITES income £278k
• EAST RIDING THEATRE LIMITED income £513k

Side by side with its peers

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