THE OXFORD PLAYHOUSE TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-15 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+56.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£3M
+22.9% vs 2024
Employees
75
+10.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-03-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,576,008 | £5,333,701 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £116,849 | £502,123 | |
| Cash | £1,333,973 | £2,082,436 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,195,220 | £2,697,342 | |
| Net assets | £2,195,219 | £2,697,342 | |
| Equity | £2,195,219 | £2,697,342 | |
| Average employees | 68 | 75 | |
| Wages | £1,205,294 | £1,406,522 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 2.6% | 9.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 28.0% | 24.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.95x | 2.69x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Wenn Townsend
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the Trustees believe that no material uncertainties exist. The Trustees have considered the level of funds held and the expected level of income and expenditure for 12 months from authorising these financial statements. They have concluded that the budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves held for the charity to be able to continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- THE OXFORD PLAYHOUSE TRUST · parent
- Oxford Playhouse Productions Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During 2024/25, Oxford Playhouse presented 526 performances (189 of which were for family audiences), selling 143,631 tickets. 12,721 adults and children took part in Creative Learning and Community programme activities.”
- “The production (Sleeping Beauty pantomime) won the Special Recognition Award for innovation at the UK Pantomime Awards.”
- “A hugely successful Offbeat Festival took place in September 2024, in partnership with Arts at The Old Fire Station and New Theatre, Oxford.”
- “Oxford Playhouse staged a brand-new festival during summer 2024, QueerFest, in partnership with Pegasus Theatre, and showcasing the work of a range of LGBTQIA+ artists.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 68 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITKEN, Gill | Director | 2024-02-20 | Mar 1960 | British |
| BAKER, Deborah Jane | Director | 2024-02-20 | Jul 1976 | British |
| BHOGAL, Jaskiran Kaur, Dr | Director | 2024-02-20 | May 1993 | British |
| BUONFINO, Alessandra, Dr | Director | 2023-02-06 | Aug 1978 | Italian,British |
| CLAUGHTON, Eleanor | Director | 2024-02-20 | May 1992 | British |
| DANCE, Deborah Jane | Director | 2015-09-24 | Nov 1957 | British |
| ELTIS, Sos Ann, Dr | Director | 1999-10-16 | Oct 1966 | British |
| KNIGHT, Adam | Director | 2024-02-20 | Sep 1978 | British |
| PILLMAN, Joseph Charles | Director | 2023-02-06 | Jul 1952 | British |
| RAY, Albert Edward | Director | 2024-02-20 | Mar 1964 | British |
| RENTON, David John Charles | Director | 2025-06-23 | Jan 1964 | British |
| ROSE, Gillian Cathryn | Director | 2023-09-01 | Dec 1962 | British |
| TUCKWELL, Micaela | Director | 2024-02-20 | Feb 1987 | British |
Show 68 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, Gary Steven | Secretary | 2017-06-30 | 2025-12-09 |
| BRAMLEY, Clive Graeme | Secretary | 2000-12-02 | 2001-06-02 |
| COKER, Edgar Tom | Secretary | 1995-09-23 | 2000-12-02 |
| FUGGLE, Roland Eric | Secretary | 2001-06-02 | 2017-06-30 |
| ILES, Dennis John | Secretary | — | 1995-05-20 |
| MORRIS ADAMS, Richard Egerton | Secretary | — | 1995-09-23 |
| SURATGAR, David | Secretary | — | 1991-07-13 |
| ASHTIANY, Saphie | Director | 2011-09-24 | 2019-09-05 |
| BAILEY, Anthony James, Professor | Director | 2005-04-16 | 2010-05-15 |
| BENNETT-JONES, Peter | Director | 1999-12-11 | 2007-02-03 |
| BLOCH, Andrew Charles Danby | Director | 2009-04-25 | 2017-11-17 |
| BLUNDELL, Jo | Director | 2013-09-27 | 2017-09-22 |
| BOASE, Martin | Director | — | 1997-03-01 |
| BOYCE, Anthony John, Dr | Director | — | 1994-09-24 |
| CARASSO, Helen | Director | 2001-12-08 | 2005-11-19 |
| CHRISTIAN, Maureen Lena | Director | 1996-09-14 | 2005-09-17 |
| COLLEY, Peter | Director | 1994-10-12 | 1995-06-24 |
| COLLINS, Rory Edwards, Professor Sir | Director | 2018-07-04 | 2023-09-01 |
| COOPER, Anna Ghislaine | Director | 2000-12-02 | 2001-09-01 |
| CURRAN, Stephen John | Director | 1993-06-12 | 1994-04-29 |
| ELDER, Liesl Ann | Director | 2016-09-22 | 2021-10-04 |
| FINLAY, David Francis Kerr | Director | 2001-04-07 | 2010-11-27 |
| FLEMMING, John Stanton | Director | 1997-02-15 | 2003-08-05 |
| FLINT, Richard James | Director | 1997-11-15 | 2000-12-04 |
| GARDAM, Timothy David | Director | 2006-02-11 | 2010-09-25 |
| GILLESPIE, Vincent, Dr | Director | 1994-10-12 | 1999-10-16 |
| GRAFEN, Alan, Prof | Director | 2010-09-25 | 2018-06-14 |
| HAMPDEN-WOODFALL, Warwick | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2018-10-02 |
| HARRIS, Jeremy | Director | 2006-02-11 | 2016-03-10 |
| HART, Wendy Elizabeth | Director | 2005-04-16 | 2015-06-24 |
| HAYWARD, Bridget Anne Veronica | Director | — | 2009-04-25 |
| HUTH, Angela | Director | 1991-11-16 | 2004-12-11 |
| JACOMB, Martin Wakefield, Sir | Director | 1994-05-14 | 2006-11-11 |
| JORDAN, Richard James | Director | 2008-07-05 | 2011-09-24 |
| JUDSON, Kathryn Jill | Director | 2006-02-11 | 2016-09-22 |
| KEEN, Beryl, Councillor | Director | — | 1993-06-12 |
| KENDRICK, Holly Gayle | Director | 1996-09-14 | 1998-07-01 |
| LAER, Ruth Alexandra | Director | 1999-10-16 | 2000-09-01 |
| LAING, Caroline Elizabeth | Director | 2006-02-11 | 2014-09-25 |
| LILLEY, Anthony William | Director | 1991-07-13 | 1994-08-31 |
| LLOYD, Eleanor Rose | Director | 2015-06-25 | 2021-11-04 |
| LUSH, Robert | Director | — | 1998-05-27 |
| MALLYON, Catherine Rowena | Director | 2008-07-05 | 2014-09-25 |
| MARCUS, Lucy Pauline | Director | 2022-05-26 | 2023-03-22 |
| MAYER, Colin, Professor | Director | 2015-11-19 | 2023-11-28 |
| MOORE, Paul David | Director | 2015-09-24 | 2018-10-05 |
| MORRIS ADAMS, Richard Egerton | Director | 1992-01-18 | 2006-02-11 |
| MORTIMER, John Clifford, Sir | Director | 1995-11-11 | 1998-05-09 |
| MOSER, Claus, Lord | Director | 1992-04-11 | 2004-06-12 |
| PARIS, Elizabeth Mary Clare | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2021-11-04 |
| PARKER, Andrew John | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2019-09-22 |
| POPAT, Sandip | Director | 2019-02-07 | 2023-02-06 |
| POTTER, Jeremy | Director | — | 1992-07-01 |
| PRICE, Robert John | Director | 2017-04-24 | 2022-09-08 |
| REED, Annabel | Director | 2019-02-07 | 2022-09-08 |
| SARGANT, James Edmund | Director | — | 2008-02-09 |
| SHRIMPTON, Nicholas, Dr | Director | — | 1994-09-24 |
| SIMPSON, Eleanor Claire Alexandra | Director | 2011-09-24 | 2016-10-03 |
| STAUNTON, Susan Rosemary | Director | 2014-11-20 | 2023-04-30 |
| SURATGAR, David | Director | — | 2002-02-16 |
| SURENDER, Rebecca, Dr | Director | 2019-02-07 | 2023-02-06 |
| SUTHERLAND, Martin Alexander | Director | 2006-09-23 | 2015-09-24 |
| THURLBY-BROOKS, Chilina | Director | 2019-02-07 | 2023-11-28 |
| UPTON, Graham | Director | 2001-04-07 | 2009-07-05 |
| WHITLUM-COOPER, Maurice Simon | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2022-11-10 |
| WILKES, Katherine Anne | Director | 2022-11-10 | 2025-02-09 |
| WILKES, Katherine Anne | Director | 2020-11-29 | 2022-09-30 |
| WILLIAMS, Andrew Christopher | Director | 2002-04-20 | 2004-09-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 244 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-27 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-12-18 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-18 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-12-15 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+16.6%
£4,576,008 £5,333,701
-
Cash
+56.1%
£1,333,973 £2,082,436
-
Net assets
+22.9%
£2,195,219 £2,697,342
-
Employees
+10.3%
68 75
-
Wages
+16.7%
£1,205,294 £1,406,522
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