INTERNATIONAL ARTS STUDIO

Registered charity 285951 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRISTOL EXPRESS B E T C, BRISTOL EXPRESS THEATRE COMPANY, BRISTOL EXPRESS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED, BRISTOL EXPRESS THEATRE TRUST LTD

Development and production of performing arts works, especially educational, social or training projects.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN AND THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN CITY OF BRISTOL AND ELSEWHERE AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF DRAMS, MIME, OPERA, DANCE, BALLET SINGING AND MUSIC. (SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES FOR FULL DETAILS).

Area of benefit: BRISTOL

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains an effective working balance and its reserves currently stand at £62,999. The trustees consider the company entitled to exemption from audit under the small companies regime, indicating a stable financial position without disclosed material uncertainties.

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 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01676616

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.

• PALMER BROWN, Dominic, Professor — director, appointed 20/07/2019not on trustee list
• NOCK, Melanie Claire — director, appointed 01/04/2017on trustee list
• BANATVALA, Jonathan — director, appointed 01/03/2008on trustee list
• CORNER, Christopher John — director, appointed 01/09/2002on trustee list
• CORNER, Christopher — secretary, appointed 30/12/2016

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER CORNER
• Dr Jonathan Banatvala · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gavin Clarke
• Melanie Nock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dominic Palmer Brown

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARTISTS STUDIO COMPANY.

• ARTISTS STUDIO COMPANY income £3.0m
• ALL ARTS & MEDIA LTD income £99k
• INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS LIMITED income £4.1m
• ISTA Global Arts Learning Ltd income £1.3m
• FUSION ARTS LIMITED income £122k
• ARTS AND HOMELESSNESS INTERNATIONAL income £322k

Side by side with its peers

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