ACTA COMMUNITY THEATRE LTD.

Registered charity 800174 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTA, AVON COMMUNITY THEATRE AGENCY LIMITED

access, creativity, theatre, artsacta champions the positive and transformational effects of active creative participation in the arts for individuals and communities. We are committed to providing access to the arts for those most at risk and most in need; to making theatre part of people's lives.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE 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 THEREFORE PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE BRISTOL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £105,348, which is above the trustees' policy target of three months' normal operating costs (approximately £70,000). Per the trustees' report, the charity reported a net expenditure of £8,323 for the year, driven by an uncertain funding environment and rising costs, but maintains adequate resources to continue operations for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “acta is a registered charity and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, which means that we receive an annual grant to hel…” (source page)
• Bristol City Council — “We are also supported by Bristol City Council.” (source page)
• ARA Recovery For All — “A big thanks to everyone who supports acta and our programme of work, including our most recent foundation and charitable trust funders: ARA…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nerys Jones
• Rob Marshall
• Sanjit Singh Chudha
• Sarah Lazare
• Stuart Merali-Younger

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

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• TALK ABOUT ART income £41k
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• ACTONE ARTSBASE income £36k
• ACTIONTRACK PERFORMANCE COMPANY LIMITED income £164k
• TARA ARTS GROUP income £834k

Side by side with its peers

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