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

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Latest income
£133k
Latest spending
£125k
Registered
1980
Accounts read
FY2025

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.

Corporate structure

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.

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

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£133k£125k
31/03/2024£159k£85k
31/03/2023£87k£91k
31/03/2022£132k£67k
31/03/2021£68k£52k

Common questions

Is LITTLE THEATRE (GATESHEAD) LIMITED financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds LITTLE THEATRE (GATESHEAD) LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LITTLE THEATRE (GATESHEAD) LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUND.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDFY2025£5k
THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDFY2024£5kSmall Grants Programme

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/03/2020£50kTheatre development project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITY THEATRE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LITTLE THEATRE (GATESHEAD) LIMITED£133k—0unclear—no doubt
UNITY THEATRE TRUST FY2025£228k—0above—no doubt
EXETER LITTLE THEATRE COMPANY FY2025£103k—0unclear—no doubt
TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED FY2025£2.9m—0above—no doubt
LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED FY2025£9.7m——unclear—no doubt
LITTLE GIVING FY2024£641k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.