SOUTH LONDON THEATRE CENTRE LIMITED
Registered charity 268210 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SLT, SLY THEATRE, SOUTH LONDON THEATRE
To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public by the production of educational plays and encouragement of the arts, including the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £16,130 for the year, reducing unrestricted reserves to £82,934. The trustees maintain that these reserves are held for the furtherance of charitable objects and are below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The directors and auditors confirm the entity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £83k; policy: three and six months' expenditure)
“These reserves are held for the furtherance of the Company’s charitable objects. It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six months' expenditure.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: SLT Building Preservation Trust Limited (BPT) is a wholly-controlled subsidiary of South London Theatre Centre Limited.
“During the year BPT charged: - £36,000 (2024: £36,000) in rent, and - £56,495 (2024: £42,993) in share of overheads to the company.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: SLT Building Preservation Trust Limited
“SLT Building Preservation Trust Limited (BPT) is a wholly-controlled subsidiary of South London Theatre Centre Limited.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Begbies. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
SLT BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
- Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £2k
“Donations under Gift-aid - 2,461”
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South London Theatre (matched by registered charity number).
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- STOOKE, Christopher Macdonald — director, appointed 25/06/2026on trustee list
- QUINTYNE, Kelly — director, appointed 16/05/2026on trustee list
- GRIFFIN, Stephen James — director, appointed 21/12/2025on trustee list
- SMITH, Edward John Frank — director, appointed 14/09/2025on trustee list
- BACON, Mark Stephen — director, appointed 07/05/2025on trustee list
- SKWARKA, Maria Elizabeth Julita — director, appointed 08/09/2024not on trustee list
- MILTON, Gareth Simon John — director, appointed 18/08/2020on trustee list
- STOOKE, Christopher Macdonald — secretary, appointed 03/06/2019
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Croydon · Kent · Lambeth · Southwark · Surrey · Wandsworth
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SOUTH LONDON THEATRE CENTRE LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £16,130 for the year, reducing unrestricted reserves to £82,934. The trustees maintain that these reserves are held for the furtherance of charitable objects and are below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The directors and auditors confirm the entity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Begbies.
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