HEADLONG THEATRE LIMITED

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

1. HEADLONG THEATRE LIMITED 2006-06-13 → present
2. OXFORD STAGE COMPANY LIMITED 1987-08-06 → 2006-06-13
3. ANVIL PRODUCTIONS LIMITED 1974-05-28 → 1987-08-06

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Sayer Vincent LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Board has therefore considered and discussed the company's financial future, and considers Headlong Theatre Limited a going concern, with no material uncertainties about Headlong's going concern status.”

Significant events

• “2024-25, our 50th anniversary year, has been a year of change and celebration for Headlong. As part of a revised operational model, we worked with Oxford Playhouse and the Cultural Programme at Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities to relocate company headquarters to Oxford while creating Associate Partnerships with Leeds Playhouse and Octagon Theatre Bolton to cement our nationwide presence.”
• “We reached 102,047 audience members in eight towns and cities across the UK; Chichester, Leeds, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester, London, Kingston, and Stratford-Upon-Avon.”
• “Our year-long Headlong Origins artist development programme supported five early-career directors while our third Writer in Residence took part in an 18-month bespoke attachment.”
• “Our Strategic Plan April 2024 to March 2027 outlined a new operational model to achieve stability, innovation, and growth while upholding the company's mission of creating exhilarating theatre that asks questions and provokes debate.”

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

Filings

16

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +23.3%

  £562,460 → £693,395

• Cash

  -57%

  £493,809 → £212,092

• Net assets

  +22.2%

  £612,704 → £748,864

• Employees

  +25%

  8 → 10

• Wages

  -5.4%

  £447,075 → £422,764

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