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Registered charity · Bolton

Octagon Theatre Trust Limited

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Bolton, Manchester City, Oldham, Salford City and more
Website
www.octagonbolton.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Octagon Theatre Trust Limited
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£4.4m
  • 2024£3.5m£3.9m
  • 2023£3.3m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.7m
  • 2021£2.6m£1.7m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC, AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

15 trustees on the board

4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

15
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15General Charitable Purposes 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Amateur Sport 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.

Arts and leisure 23Business services 3Health and social care 3

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£4.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.2 in 2021

78 from 52 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
248833
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 JUNE 1966 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 7 OCTOBER 1983, 15 AUGUST 1986, 11 SEPTEMBER 1995 AND 25 NOVEMBER 2002
Companies House
Company number 00882226 · Active
Contact on the register
01204529407 · info@octagonbolton.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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