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Registered charity (CIO) · Kent

Applause Rural Touring

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £594k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • EX2620 Venue Audit Buyer: Wealden District Council Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    Applause Rural Touring was brought in to work with our community venues to audit the current condition and readiness to host live performance. The venues have been encouraged to apply to our CLIF funding to develop facilities.

About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
East Sussex, Kent, West Sussex, Medway and more
Website
www.applause.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£594k£464k
  • 2024£455k£423k
  • 2023£294k£445k
Earlier years
  • 2022£288k£381k
  • 2021£538k£273k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTS TO THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN RURAL AND/OR ISOLATED COMMUNITIES IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND BY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PROGRAMMING, COMMISSIONING AND FACILITATING DELIVERY OF ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES; WORKING WITH ARTISTS TO HELP DEVELOP THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF, AND WORK FOR, THESE COMMUNITIES; AND BY EXTENDING THE REACH OF ARTS PROVISION BY DEVELOPING LOCAL VENUES AND SUPPORTING AND TRAINING VOLUNTEER ORGANISERS. ISOLATED IN THIS CONTEXT MEANS ISOLATED FROM ARTS PROVISION BY PHYSICAL, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC REASONS.

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.

7 trustees on the board

4.3y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

1
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 7

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

Education 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£594k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.1 in 2021

6 from 6 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1165632
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 18 Feb 2016
Contact on the register
01892457635 · office@applause.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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