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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

ORANGE TREE THEATRE LTD

As a producing theatre-in-the-round with a full community and education programme, the Orange Tree promotes live theatre to as wide a community as possible, encourages new and "undiscovered" writing and offers resource to the community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£1,868£1,994£-126£138£1,497£1,4558.8420
30/06/22*£1,760£1,780£-20£189£1,624£1,62410.9460
30/06/21£1,704£1,140£565£227£1,644£1,64417.3530
30/06/20*£1,604£1,450£154£187£1,079£1,0798.95310
30/06/19*£1,767£1,836£-69£223£925£92565115
30/06/18*£1,697£1,844£-146£201£994£9946.5490
30/06/17£1,988£1,795£193£170£1,141£1,1417.6380
30/06/16£1,539£1,551£-12£115£947£9477.3460
30/06/15?£2,167£2,285£-118£157£960£9605460
31/03/14£1,579£1,612£-33£125£1,078£770.6310
31/03/13£1,525£1,593£-68£127£1,110£770.6320
31/03/12£1,354£1,462£-108£110£1,178£8767.2300
31/03/11£1,490£1,428£62£98£1,286£9708.1280
31/03/10£1,323£1,427£-105£90£1,224£8937.5340
31/03/09£1,240£1,364£-124£84£1,328£9838.6340
31/03/08£1,359£1,425£-67£67£1,452£1,0929.2370
31/03/07*£1,326£1,234£92£67£1,519£1,14511.1370
31/03/06£1,189£1,133£55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,069£1,103£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£962£931£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 8.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 46 years
(51 years as a company)

www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk

admin@orangetreetheatre.co.uk

02089400141

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£1,150,852
Fenton Arts Trust£4,000
Heathrow Community Trust£2,834
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Fenton Arts Trust - Beneficiaries 2022 – 2023
£4,000 31/03/2023
A comprehensive, developmental programme allowing talented, early-career playwrights to work collaboratively with industry professionals.
Heathrow Community Trust - Delivering online productions and engagement activities
£2,834 08/05/2020
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To support post of Executive Director to enable them to move to delivering digitally. Have already moved to showing productions online and have developed good audience figures.
DCMS - CRF - Orange Tree Theatre
£770,538 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - CRF R2 OT RECOVERY
£380,314 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-77
  • ANITA ARORA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Criminal Barrister
  • CAROLYN TRACEY BACKHOUSE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Actor
  • CORINNE MEREDITH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Freelance Community Dance And Theatre Artist
  • DAVID NORMAN MARKS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • FERAS AL-CHALABI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Asset Manager
  • HARRIET KATE VARLEY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Lawyer
  • INDIA SEMPER-HUGHES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Actor
  • JUDY GIBBONS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant
  • LESLEY MORRIS Appointed: 2023
  • MARINA JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Deputy Head Of Development
  • RICHARD BUXTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • ROBERT PETER LISNEY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant
  • VICTORIA KENT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Risk Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/08/1978, number: 266128
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/05/1973, number: 01113093
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 10 days late, AR20: 105 days late, AR19: 13 days late, AR18: 37 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

ORANGE TREE THEATRE
1 CLARENCE STREET
RICHMOND
TW9 2SA

Objectives

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.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE RICHMOND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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