Dreams 'n' Wishes Productions

Registered charity 277689 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MILTON KEYNES AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY

To Provide an outlet for members and children of the local community in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas to practise and learn the activities of the performing arts and to provide an opportunity for members of the public to access and experience the performing arts within their own community.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN TH DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS AND TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPREACIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS.

Area of benefit: MILTON KEYNES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £21,321 for the year ending 30 June 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £46,318. The trustees' report indicates that the charity maintains a reserves policy targeting one year's overheads and production costs, and the current financial position reflects continued community support and artistic activity.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 07/05/2024, 7 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 15/05/2023, 15 days after the 30/04/2023 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 31/08/2022, 123 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leigh Alexander Smithchair
• Abbie Ingold
• Grant Edward Amies
• James Alexander Down
• Martin Andrew Lay
• Martin Stanley Putman
• Maxine Hurlock

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DREAMS AND WISHES.

• DREAMS AND WISHES income £632k
• MUSIC AND ARTS PRODUCTION LEEDS income £520k
• WESTBURY ARTS CENTRE income £116k
• MY WISH CHARITY income £660k
• WILTON PRODUCTIONS income £28k
• THEATRE WORKS income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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