ART OF THE PUPPET LIMITED

Registered charity 276527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PUPPET THEATRE BARGE

Supporting the presentation of puppet shows to children and adults. Running puppet workshops for schools. Supporting the Puppet Theatre Barge productions. Supporting two trainee puppeteers annually. Contributions to the making of puppet productions.

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 PUPPETRY DRAMA BALLET MUSIC SINGING LITERATURE SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £16,196 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £72,845. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Free reserves are held at £50,345 to account for fluctuations in seasonal ticket sales and unforeseen circumstances.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2021 (received 20/09/2022, 52 days after the 30/07/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01386096

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.

• BOTIC, Dunia — director, appointed 23/11/2023not on trustee list
• HILTON, Clarice May — director, appointed 23/11/2023on trustee list
• LEAHY, Rose — director, appointed 15/05/2020on trustee list
• DOYLE, Andrew Joseph — director, appointed 21/05/2004on trustee list
• PITT, Jeanette Frances — director, appointed 21/05/2004on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, Robert Angus Michael — secretary, appointed 15/05/2020

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DOYLE
• Clarice May Hilton
• Dunja Botic
• JEANETTE FRANCES PITT
• Rose Leahy

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG PEOPLE'S PUPPET THEATRE.

• YOUNG PEOPLE'S PUPPET THEATRE income £145k
• NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £271k
• UPFRONT ARTS income £82k
• SHARPE'S POTTERY HERITAGE AND ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £143k
• Showcase Performing Arts income £27k
• FLUTE THEATRE income £73k

Side by side with its peers

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