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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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.

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
• TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.9m
• ACTORS TOURING COMPANY (LONDON) LIMITED income £539k
• MALVERN THEATRES TRUST LIMITED income £7.1m
• TAMASHA THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £601k
• HEAD2HEAD THEATRE 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.