CITY PLAYERS

Registered charity 518862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY PLAYERS AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY

To promote the advancement and improvement of general education and public appreciation of all aspects of the art of drama.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF GENERAL EDUCATION AND PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE ART OF DRAMA.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,211 for the year, with total income of £26,184 and expenditure of £21,973. Cash funds at the end of the year were £36,139, and the trustees consider the charity to be in good financial health despite increasing running costs.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/10/2025 (received 23/09/2026, 23 days after the 31/08/2026 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen M Shillan
• Ian Vollum
• John Cameron

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOUTHWICK PLAYERS.

• THE SOUTHWICK PLAYERS income £38k
• THE PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE COMPANY OF PLAYERS (HERTFORD) income £56k
• GALLERY PLAYERS income £94k
• THAME PLAYERS THEATRE COMPANY income £146k
• THE CHIPSTEAD PLAYERS income £134k

Side by side with its peers

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