ALNWICK DISTRICT PLAYHOUSE TRUST

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  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-04-14.

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

Consolidated group

Abridged

Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)

Auditor

Kinnair Associates Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Current forecasts indicate that, despite encouraging growth in commercial income and margins, we will continue to make small losses on the general fund, making us dependant on grants and agreement with Northumberland County Council (NCC) on premises costs for financial survival in the future. Discussions with NCC are ongoing and remain positive, and the trustees are confident of a favourable outcome, and therefore believe that the going concern basis remains appropriate.”

Group structure

1. ALNWICK DISTRICT PLAYHOUSE TRUST · parent
   1. Alnwick Playhouse Trading Limited 1% · England and Wales · non-primary purpose trading activities

Significant events

• “This year's audience figures have been exceptional, the final six months of the year have had the best sales figures in the organisation's history and took our cumulative total for the year to 72,336 attendees, 11,000 more than the total for last year.”
• “The Gallery had an exhibition by Trina Dalziel and Anthea Wood called Room With A View...Gavin Penn presented an exhibition of Al generated art...Linda Gaskell...John Shiel's exhibition From The Source To The Sea (The Aln) was also hugely successful.”
• “Our music program has been busy with many sell out shows including, Elio Pace, The Bay City Rollers, The Bootleg Eagles, The Watch plays Genesis, The Reinegan Sisters, The Melsons. Joe McElderry, Fairport Convention and The Fureys.”
• “Eliot Smith Dance rehearsed and opened their critically acclaimed work Pitmen which then went out on a limited tour.”
• “This year's Alnwick Story Fest was the biggest yet and had some fantastic speakers, including Adele Parks, Sir Alexander McCall Smith and Oliver Burkman.”
• “In the studio we had a sell-out show called Previously Loved which was a three hander by local artist Cheryl Stewart.”
• “Chapterhouse Theatre presented A Christmas Carol on the 30th of November.”
• “Our own Christmas production Little Red Riding Hood (The Trial) in collaboration with Berwick upon Tweed based company Tortive and directed by Damian Cruden.”
• “The Playhouse concert band presented their 30th anniversary concert Northumberland Movies a Celebration.”
• “Duchess' High School presented their drama production, Flint Street Nativity.”
• “Alnwick Music Society hosted The Northern Symphonia.”
• “Alnwick Stage Musical Society presented Kiss Me Kate.”
• “Local theatre company Elysium presented Othello.”
• “Tutti Frutti were in residence for 2 weeks to tech, dress and open their new children's show The Glass Slipper.”
• “A major development of the past year has been the purchase and refurbishment of the neighbouring building, 32 Bondgate. This project is complete and we now offer office space for November Club...and accommodation for visiting artists and participants in cultural activity.”
• “In No.32, the events/meeting room is now a temporary banking Hub. This brings an useful additional income stream...”
• “April to July -The Jungle Book. 45 children performed two shows...”
• “Sept to Dec -The Nutcracker. ...47 young people perform 4 shows...”
• “Jan to Mar - Devised Theatre. ...10 groups performing...”
• “Garfield Weston Foundation £70,000 core funding of £35,000 per year for two years”
• “Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust £50,000 funding for new digital film projector for main auditorium and The WA Handley Charity Trust £3,250 core funding”
• “William Leech Charity £5,000 funding towards new digital film projector for main auditorium and Butler Ember Charity £1,000 core funding”

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

Filings

1

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +40.7%

  £893,792 → £1,257,402

• Cash

  -24.1%

  £880,123 → £667,874

• Net assets

  +19.4%

  £2,150,644 → £2,568,319

• Employees

  +3.8%

  26 → 27

• Operating profit

  +862.6%

  £43,711 → £420,742

• Profit before tax

  +1,022.1%

  £37,223 → £417,675

• Wages

  +13.5%

  £412,977 → £468,904

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