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Registered charity · Newport

Newport Playgoers' Society

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £894k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation
Where
Newport City, Cornwall, Blaenau Gwent, Cardiff and more
Website
www.dolmantheatre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£894k£282k
  • 2024£199k£234k
  • 2023£214k£338k
Earlier years
  • 2022£185k£177k
  • 2021£165k£161k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 72%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO STIMULATE AN INTEREST IN AND A STUDT OF THE DRAMA AND THE DRAMATIC ART, AND TO SUPPORT ALL THAT IS BEST IN THE THEATRE AND WITH THIS OBJECT IN VIEW TO KEEP THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE IN ITS REPERTORY AND TO REVIVE WHATSO EVER ELSE IS VITAL IN ENGLISH CLASSICAL DRAMA

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

7y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

2
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 12Education/training 12Recreation 12

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

Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£894k latest income
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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

2
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
232628
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES AS AMENDED 11 JULY 1979
Contact on the register
01633263670 · manager@dolmantheatre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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