BURY ST.EDMUNDS THEATRE MANAGEMENT LIMITED(THE)(THE)

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Larking Gowen LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The ongoing support of Arts Council England is assured until at least March 2027. The advanced sales for the 2025 pantomime and a full programme are booked ahead into 2026/27. These factors and the organisation's financial position, stand it in good stead to deal with the challenging funding environment (including loss of SCC funding) and increased costs. These factors have been prudently budgeted for and no material uncertainties have been identified in respect of going concern.”

Group structure

1. BURY ST.EDMUNDS THEATRE MANAGEMENT LIMITED(THE)(THE) · parent
   1. Bury St Edmunds Theatre Productions Limited 100% · England and Wales · Theatre Productions

Significant events

• “We were particularly pleased with tickets sales during the year, and in particular for our pantomime, Aladdin, and our in-house production of a Tryal of Witches which achieved national critical acclaim. Each exceeded targets and helped the theatre to achieve an overall growth in audience numbers enabling us to exceed financial targets for the year.”
• “This has been an extraordinary year, with Theatre Royal producing five in-house productions - the most we have produced in the last 10 years.”
• “Tallulah Brown's A Tryal of Witches was another notable success. The production sold-out the final week of its run and attracted a 4-star review from The Guardian.”
• “Our pantomime continues to go from strength to strength, once again setting a new record for total audiences and total box office income.”
• “Our total annual audience continues to rise, this year increasing to 74,518, an increase of 2%. We are particularly proud that audience for our own productions rose to 42,300, representing 43% of our total annual audience.”
• “Our Creative Learning programme continues to thrive and this year saw the first edition of our new annual Bloom community participation festival.”
• “This year saw the creation of a new programme of work supporting low-income families in Haverhill by teaching new parents a range of creative play skills.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +15.8%

  £1,600,512 → £1,854,030

• Cash

  +8.3%

  £873,664 → £946,337

• Net assets

  -0.1%

  £4,623,471 → £4,617,827

• Employees

  -2.7%

  75 → 73

• Wages

  +13.3%

  £801,724 → £908,591

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers