Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

To distribute income from legacies and fundraising events to the 14 theatrical member charities

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025

Total income: £146,204

Total expenditure: £66,499

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

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making

What the charity does:

General Charitable Purposes

Who the charity helps:

Other Defined Groups

How the charity helps:

Makes Grants To Organisations
Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Where the charity operates:

Throughout England And Wales
Northern Ireland
Scotland

Governance

Registration history:

17 June 1966: Standard registration
03 March 2026: Removed (Transfer of funds)
03 March 2026: Funds transferred to 1202961 ACTING FOR OTHERS

Organisation type:

Trust

Other names:

ACTING FOR OTHERS (Working name)

Gift aid:

Recognised by HMRC for gift aid

Other regulators:

No information available

Policies:

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Land and property:

This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Financial history

Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure	31/03/2021	31/03/2022	31/03/2023	31/03/2024	31/03/2025
Total gross income	£1.76m	£216.98k	£407.91k	£470.98k	£146.20k
Total expenditure	£1.36m	£663.85k	£400.29k	£386.97k	£66.50k
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
Income - Donations and legacies	£1.76m	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Other trading activities	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Charitable activities	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Endowments	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Investment	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Other	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Legacies	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expenditure - Charitable activities	£1.30m	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expenditure - Raising funds	£59.51k	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expenditure - Governance	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expenditure - Grants institution	£1.28m	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expenditure - Investment management	£0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expenditure - Other	£0	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
Annual return	31 March 2025	06 January 2026	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2025	06 January 2026	On time
Annual return	31 March 2024	15 January 2025	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2024	15 January 2025	On time
Annual return	31 March 2023	31 January 2024	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2023	31 January 2024	On time
Annual return	31 March 2022	23 January 2023	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2022	23 January 2023	On time
Annual return	31 March 2021	24 January 2022	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2021	24 January 2022	On time

Submit annual return

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.

TRUST DEED DATED 29TH JANUARY, 1965. AND SUPPLEMENTARY DEED OF 29TH MARCH 1966, AND 14TH JULY 1993

Charitable objects

TO BENEFIT AND FURTHER THE WORK OF MEMBER CHARITIES THESE BEING CHARITIES CONNECTED WITH THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION WHICH ARE REGISTERED UNDER THE CHARITIES ACT, 1960.

Area of benefit

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

NATIONAL.

THE COMBINED THEATRICAL CHARITIES APPEALS COUNCIL