Registered charity · Lowestoft
The Lowestoft Players Limited
- 12 trustees
- Income £169k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Andrew Russell GroomChair · since 2019
- Caroline WarrenTrustee · since 2025
- Casey DivallTrustee · since 2025
- Deanne DicksonTrustee · since 2022
- Emma-Jayne HerbertTrustee · since 2025
- James AtkinTrustee · since 2016
- Martin Terrence WilsonTrustee · since 2016
- Maurice GarrodTrustee · since 2022
- Melanie WrightTrustee · since 2025
- Nick GarrodTrustee · since 2025
- Peter George WilsonTrustee · since 2025
- Ryan TakmanTrustee · since 2017
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Suffolk
- Website
- www.lowestoftplayers.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Lowestoft Players Limited
- Registered
- 2009
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£169k£133k
- 2024£165k£151k
- 2023£155k£130k
Earlier years
- 2022£114k£93k
- 2021£73k£71k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION IN OPERA MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BYA MOUNTING OPERA, MUSICAL AND THEATRE PRODUCTIONS AS AN AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF LOWESTOFT AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAB PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE CHARITY TO RUN AS AN AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY AND FOR SIMILAR GROUPS TO MOUNT OPERATIC AND THEATRE AND MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
Grants received
1 grant · £9,545 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,545
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Andrew Russell Groom Chair since 2019
- Caroline Warren since 2025
- Casey Divall since 2025
- Deanne Dickson since 2022
- Emma-Jayne Herbert since 2025
- James Atkin since 2016
- Martin Terrence Wilson since 2016
- Maurice Garrod since 2022
- Melanie Wright since 2025
- Nick Garrod since 2025
- Peter George Wilson since 2025
- Ryan Takman since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Russell Groom Chair since 2019
- James Atkin since 2016
- Martin Terrence Wilson since 2016
- Ryan Takman since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (12)
- Andrew Russell Groom Chair since 2019
- Caroline Warren since 2025
- Casey Divall since 2025
- Deanne Dickson since 2022
- Emma-Jayne Herbert since 2025
- James Atkin since 2016
- Martin Terrence Wilson since 2016
- Maurice Garrod since 2022
- Melanie Wright since 2025
- Nick Garrod since 2025
- Peter George Wilson since 2025
- Ryan Takman since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1130421
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 JANUARY 2009
- Companies House
- Company number 06798898 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01502563614 · lowplaybookings@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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