COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE
Registered charity 288652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Colchester Arts Centre aims to provide a diverse and eclectic performance programme of arts that respond to current practices in arts and meet specific needs of the community it serves. The artistic policy is to create a bias towards new work, innovation and experimentation. It also creates work to promote and inclusive and accessible programme.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The provided document is limited to the Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements or trustee narratives. Consequently, no information regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or financial health is available for analysis.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Vijay Patel — Associate Director (source)
- Louise Goodwin — Chair (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
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.
- WERENOWSKI, Leszek Stojgniew — director, appointed 09/04/2025on trustee list
- GOODWIN, Louise — director, appointed 04/11/2022on trustee list
- NAKUM, Jaymini — director, appointed 18/05/2021on trustee list
- ROBERTS, Anthony Charles — director, appointed 18/05/2021on trustee list
- STEPHEN, Julia Pauline — director, appointed 02/03/2016on trustee list
- BARKER, Elaine — directoron trustee list
- PRICE, Elizabeth — directoron trustee list
- CLAVANE, Anthony — directoron trustee list
- HILDRETH, Nigel Peter — directoron trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Louise Goodwinchair
- ANTHONY CLAVANE
- ANTHONY ROBERTS
- ELAINE BARKER
- Elizabeth Price
- JAYMINI NAKUM · trustee of 1 other charity
- Julia Stephen · trustee of 1 other charity
- Leszek Werenowski
- NIGEL HILDRETH · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Essex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is limited to the Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements or trustee narratives. Consequently, no information regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or financial health is available for analysis. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Streets Audit LLP.
Who funds COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE?
Funders whose own accounts filings name COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE as a grant recipient include THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUND, THE MARCELA TRUST.
Known funders
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