NOMAD PLAYERS LIMITED

Registered charity 287729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NOMAD THEATRE, THE NOMADS

To promote education in the production of plays and other stage presentations and the encouragement of the arts.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR IN CO-OPERTATION WITH THE UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS THE NOMADS IN THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS, OPERAS, AND OTHER ARTS, INCLUDING 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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the period of £11,650, bringing total reserves to £1,052,026. The organization is entirely reliant upon donations for its income and benefits from 100% business rates relief. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue operating, with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01165454

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.

• MILES, Owen Thomas — director, appointed 08/07/2025on trustee list
• BEAL, Linda Janice — director, appointed 01/07/2023on trustee list
• JAMES, Philip Wyn — director, appointed 07/11/2022on trustee list
• VESSEY, Elizabeth Claire — director, appointed 08/09/2020on trustee list
• VESSEY, John Phillip — director, appointed 08/09/2020on trustee list
• MARTIN, David William — director, appointed 07/10/2014on trustee list
• BURNS, Elaine Margaret — director, appointed 07/10/2014on trustee list
• PAYNE, David John — director, appointed 05/09/2011on trustee list
• VESSEY, Elizabeth Claire — secretary, appointed 29/11/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID JOHN PAYNE
• DAVID MARTIN
• ELAINE BURNS
• ELIZABETH CLAIRE VESSEY
• JOHN PHILLIP VESSEY
• LINDA BEAL
• Owen Thomas Miles
• Philip Wyn James

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHIPSTEAD PLAYERS.

• THE CHIPSTEAD PLAYERS income £134k
• THE BANCROFT PLAYERS income £200k
• DILYS GUITE PLAYERS LIMITED income £63k
• LINDLEY PLAYERS LIMITED income £170k
• THE PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE SEVENOAKS PLAYERS income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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