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Theatre Arts Action Trust

Registered charity 1076399 Registered since 1999

Operates: Essex

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8
trustees on the board
3.5y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
8.2y
average years in governance
7 vs 0 portfolio
first-time trustees
4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1Recreation 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 4Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

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Contact

Websitewww.headgatetheatre.co.uk
Emailsecretary@headgatetheatre.co.uk
Phone01206366000
AddressHeadgate Theatre, 14 Chapel Street North, COLCHESTER, CO2 7AT

Finances

£211,817 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£98,466£131,868
2021£207,599£184,617
2022£206,607£219,092
2023£188,601£231,007
2024£211,817£233,300

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

3.1 to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and an appreciation of the art of drama and other associated performing arts in all their respective aspects;3.2 in the interests of social welfare to provide facilities by way of a building and to maintain its use for the inhabitants of Colchester and its surrounding villages and neighbourhood for the purposes of the furtherance and promotion of amateur theatre, educational drama and other associated performing arts, such building to be used predominantly by amateur organisations;3.3 to offer opportunities and facilities to teachers of drama and the arts to practice their vocational activities in Colchester and elsewhere in Colchester and the environs;3.4 to advance education by such means as the Trustees think fit by encouraging the general public, particularly those in Colchester and the surrounding area, schools, special interest groups, people with disabilities and the disadvantaged to take an active interest in a wide variety of theatre, drama and the arts generally;3.5 in the interests of social welfare, to provide or to assist in the provision of facilities in Colchester or within the surrounding area for recreation; other leisure-time occupations; and the advancement of health, education, citizenship and community development within the meaning of the Charities Act 20113.6 such other charitable purposes as the Trustees shall see fit as being for the general promotion of theatre and the arts in Colchester and the surrounding area

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON THE 19TH MARCH 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17TH APRIL 2009. as amended on 16 Apr 2018 as amended on 15 Apr 2019 as amended on 23 Jun 2019 as amended on 01 Dec 2023

Trustees (8)

8trustees
73median age
6aged 70+
Succession outlook: 6 of 8 trustees are aged 70 or over.

Linked company (Companies House)

Theatre Arts Action Trust · 03737107 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 19/03/1999

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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