HORSE AND BAMBOO THEATRE

Registered charity 292326 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LITTLE WORLD LIMITED

The promotion of public education and the encouragement of the arts through the visual and performance arts. It achieves its charitable objectives through its principal activities. Horse + Bamboo exists to pursue excellence in visual theatre and related activities and to take innovative theatre to sections of the community who may not easily access it.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF PUPPETRY, PRINTMAKING, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, MIME, DANCE, SINGING, MUSIC AND CERAMICS AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL 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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rossendale, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on unrestricted funds of £85,259 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by reduced income from trusts and foundations and increased capacity needs. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £4,742, which is below the stated policy target of six months' core operating costs (c£51k). Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the charity is entitled to prepare accounts on a going concern basis due to ongoing financial support.

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 handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01731859

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.

• MORTON, Andrew — director, appointed 01/09/2026not on trustee list
• WARNER, Mick — director, appointed 01/09/2026not on trustee list
• CALLAGHAN, Amy — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• MARGERESON, Elizabeth Alice Lowes — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• FOULDS, Victoria Claire — director, appointed 15/05/2023on trustee list
• LATHAM, Peter James — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• CAMILLERI, Jennifer — secretary, appointed 20/12/2021

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter James Lathamchair
• Amy Callaghan
• Elizabeth Margereson
• Joseph Oldfield
• Oliver Bishop
• Victoria Foulds

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 THE HORSE TRUST.

• THE HORSE TRUST income £2.3m
• DARK HORSE THEATRE income £187k
• HORSEWORLD TRUST income £1.1m
• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £3.1m
• CORBY CUBE THEATRE TRUST income £1.4m
• HOPTON REHAB & HOMING CENTRE income £327k

Side by side with its peers

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