ASHBY DRAMATIC SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 506265 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Amateur dramatic.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE OF A CHARTITABLE 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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North West Leicestershire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under the small companies regime, indicating no independent auditor's report is present. Per the balance sheet, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £77,563 against total net assets of £95,680, with no disclosed pension deficits or material uncertainties affecting its financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Heathchair
• Aleyn Lester · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Catherine Golden
• DIANE CRANE
• KENNETH GREGORY WARD
• Thomas Martin Bradley Pritchard

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire

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 FARNWORTH LITTLE THEATRE.

• FARNWORTH LITTLE THEATRE income £42k
• BAWTRY AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £55k
• WINCHESTER DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £210k
• PATELEY BRIDGE DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £26k
• CHELMSFORD AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £120k
• EASTBOURNE OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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