National Youth Music Theatre Ltd

Registered charity 281159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6979509 · Wikipedia · also known as CHILDREN'S MUSIC THEATRE LIMITED, NATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE

The National Youth Music Theatre exists to produce challenging music theatre work, both major productions and workshops, for young people of all backgrounds as participants and, in helping them to explore new and existing works, to inspire themselves and each other, and to give them the opportunity to achieve their highest aspirations, realising their talent, imagination and creativity.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE REPRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING PROVIDED THAT ALL THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

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.

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Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small surplus of £10,168 for the year, driven by a 57% increase in total income to £949,773, although expenditure also rose proportionately. Unrestricted reserves stood at £190,244, which the trustees consider below their stated policy target of maintaining three to six months of expenditure. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Youth Music Theatre (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Mundenchair
• Adrian George Packer
• Beverley Helena GABRIEL
• DAVID HERMAN ALFRED REITMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Danielle Claire TARENTO · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC.

• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• NATIONAL YOUTH ARTS TRUST income £262k
• MUSIC FOR YOUTH income £686k
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN income £4.0m
• C.A.T.S. YOUTH THEATRE income £90k
• THE LLANDUDNO YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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