KENT OPERA

Charity number: 1050479
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Transforming lives through music and drama . . . This former opera company now helps the rehabilitation of ex-offenders and the socially excluded through the performing arts, including the advancement of young actors and performers, in Kent and the London area.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £13,884
Total expenditure: £5,969

People

3 Trustee(s)

5 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
  • Elderly/old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Human Resources
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
  • Kent
  • Throughout London

Governance

Registration history:
  • 10 November 1995: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
  • CANTABILE TRUST (Working name)
  • OPERA PLAYERS (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

3 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Ann-Marie Willison Nurse Trustee 14 January 2021
None on record
Simon King Trustee 03 October 2019
None on record
Robert David Weston Lacey Trustee 26 June 2017
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 01/04/2020 01/04/2021 01/04/2022 01/04/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £20.92k £4.92k £6.55k £4.85k £13.88k
Total expenditure £24.84k £5.02k £6.50k £4.29k £5.97k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 27 January 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 Not Required
Annual return 01 April 2023 24 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2023 Not Required
Annual return 01 April 2022 27 January 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2022 Not Required
Annual return 01 April 2021 24 January 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2021 Not Required
Annual return 01 April 2020 22 January 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2020 Not Required
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 01 SEP 1994 AS AMENDED ON 31 OCT 1995 AS AMENDED ON 17 JUN 2004 AS AMENDED ON 26 APR 2016 AS AMENDED ON 01 AUG 2016 as amended on 24 May 2021

Charitable objects

(1) To advance the education and the development of young professional performers in opera, drama and the creative arts through working alongside and sharing their practice with the disadvantaged and *socially excluded in workshops, live performances and online. (2) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit through the provision of our projects of music and/or drama designed to help develop skills and self-confidence, with the aim of assisting integration into society and in particular into education, training and employment. (3) To promote, where feasible, the rehabilitation of prisoners for the public benefit in particular, but not exclusively, by delivering our music and/or drama projects inside and outside prisons as a means to build the skills and capacity of offenders so that they can break the cycle of reoffending. * ‘Socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: Unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing; crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society).

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

PRIMARILY IN THE MEDWAY TOWNS, KENT AREA

Contact information

Address:
6th Floor
International House
Canterbury Crescent
London
SW9 7QH
Phone:
07903 692765
Email:
info@kentopera.org
Website:

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