I O U LIMITED

Registered charity 273527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IOU, IOU THEATRE

IOU Ltd was established 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, mime, dance, singing and music, and to formulate, prepare and establish activities of a charitable nature.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £37,314 for the year, with total funds carried forward of £217,493. The trustees note that the charity is dependent on continued support from grant-aiding bodies but believe this support will continue. Unrestricted reserves stood at £127,125, of which £106,125 was designated for specific purposes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Marriagechair
• Catherine Waddington
• Dr Alison Andrews · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nancy Ellis
• Philip Boyes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samuel Clayton
• Sarah Louise Coulson
• Shirley May
• Stella Hall

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• IOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £537k
• OVO income £689k
• FERDINANDO & LUIGI INNOCENTI FOUNDATION income £649k
• INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ORGANIZATION (UK) LIMITED income £26.7m
• I CAN AND I AM LIMITED income £435k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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