LITTLE THEATRE (GATESHEAD) LIMITED

Registered charity 510742 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide and maintain The Little Theatre as a venue for performing groups mainly amateur

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADAVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREOF PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

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Registered contact address: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £108,679, held to meet unforeseen expenditure, with no specific policy target disclosed. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 19/08/2024, 201 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04640680

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.

• LINSCOTT, Colin — director, appointed 30/01/2003not on trustee list
• LINSCOTT, Sylvia Janet Rose — director, appointed 30/01/2003not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Collinschair
• Benjamin Matthew Brown
• Huw Pritchard
• Judith Carruthers
• Judith Mary Philipson
• Louise Wright
• ROBERT CARRUTHERS
• SUSAN CLARK
• Sylvia Bertie

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LITTLE ACTORS THEATRE COMPANY.

• LITTLE ACTORS THEATRE COMPANY income £57k
• RETFORD LITTLE THEATRE income £81k
• EXETER LITTLE THEATRE COMPANY income £103k
• MEDWAY LITTLE THEATRE LIMITED income £65k
• WAKEFIELD LITTLE THEATRE income £44k
• LEICESTER THEATRE GROUP income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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