SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY

Active
Company number 02994954Private company limited by guaranteeIncorporated 1994

Key figures

0
Employees 2025
01020302022202320242025

Like most small UK companies, SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY does not publish a profit and loss account in its latest accounts. The figures below come from the balance sheet.

Sector comparison

SIC 90010

Where the company stands among the 17,682 active companies whose first SIC code is 90010 (Performing arts).

Employees0
Lower than 55% · median 1
Company age32.0 years
Older than 96% · median 5.0 years
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Summary: SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY

What kind of company is it?

SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY is a private company limited by guarantee registered with Companies House under company number 02994954. It was incorporated on 25 Nov 1994. Its status is active. The registered office is in London (SE1). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is performing arts (90010).

How is the company doing financially?

The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files full accounts. The company had an average of 0 employees. Figures are available for 4 financial years (2022–2025).

How does it compare with similar companies?

Compared with 17,682 active companies whose first SIC code is 90010: By number of employees it ranks lower than 55% of them (median 1). It is older than 96% of them (median age 5.0 years).

Has it received government grants?

It is recorded as the recipient of 3 central government grants worth £364.1k, from Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

What do public registers and reports show?

It is a registered charity (number 1042870) with a latest reported income of £1.8m. HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly furniture and lighting.

Who runs and controls the company?

The company has 11 current directors. 3 of 3 registered charges are outstanding.

When are its next filings due?

The next accounts are due by 14 Dec 2026. The next confirmation statement is due by 13 Sep 2027.

Filed accounts2022–2025
2022202320242025
Total assets————
Total liabilities————
Net assets / total equity————
Average number of employees232700

A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.

Government grants

3 grants

SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY is recorded as the recipient of 3 central government grants since 2020, together worth £364.1k.

Grants
  1. Culture Recovery Fund - Grants programmeDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £2,729
  2. Southwark Playhouse Culture Recovery FundDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £243,678 · Culture Recovery Fund: Arts Recovery (ACE)
  3. Southwark Playhouse Apr-JunDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £117,740 · Culture Recovery Fund: Arts Recovery (ACE)

From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.

Registers and licences

Registered charityNo. 1042870
Registered with the Charity Commission
17 Dec 1994
Income, year to 31 Dec 2025
£1.8m
Spending
£1.9m

Southwark Playhouse is a leading London theatre venue that presents a year round programme of work by new and emerging theatre artists and practitioners. Alongside this work the organisation offers a year round curriculum support programme working in a large number of Southwark schools, and a peer-…

View on the register of charities

International trade‡

Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 1 of the last 12 months on record, most recently January 2026. Main goods: furniture and lighting.

From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.

Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.

History

57 events
  1. Vanessa SANYAUKE appointedDirector
  2. Elayn FRASER appointedDirector
  3. Angela FULLMAN appointedDirector
  4. Chris NORMAN appointedDirector
  5. Gary BEESTONE appointedDirector
  6. Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: 0 employees
  7. Helen WHITEHOUSE resignedDirector
  8. Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: 0 employees
Earlier events (49)
  1. Financial year 2023 endedAccounts: 27 employees
  2. Ken HUNT appointedDirector
  3. Financial year 2022 endedAccounts: 23 employees
  4. Karen Hillivi MCHUGH appointedDirector
  5. Rodney Nigel PEARSON resignedDirector
  6. Sarah Margaret HICKSON resignedDirector
  7. Christine GAGNON resignedDirector
  8. Helen WHITEHOUSE appointedDirector
  9. Christine GAGNON appointedDirector
  10. Joseph ROBERTS resignedDirector
  11. Rodney Nigel PEARSON appointedDirector
  12. Kathleen Mary MILES resignedDirector
  13. Giles SEMPER appointedDirector
  14. Joseph ROBERTS appointedDirector
  15. Adam Alexander VALKIN resignedDirector
  16. Dominic Jonathan HARDISTY resignedDirector
  17. Sarah Margaret HICKSON appointedDirector
  18. Tim Jake WOOD appointedDirector
  19. Kathleen Mary MILES appointedDirector
  20. Jonathan Michael Holmes SELLORS resignedDirector
  21. Jane Augusta HOWELL resignedDirector
  22. Adam Alexander VALKIN appointedDirector
  23. Robert CHAPMAN resignedDirector
  24. Anne Victoria WORSLEY resignedDirector
  25. Jonathan Michael Holmes SELLORS appointedDirector
  26. Patrick ANIM ADDO resignedDirector
  27. Glenn WELLMAN appointedDirector
  28. Clare Louise RILEY resignedDirector
  29. Juliet ALDERDICE resignedSecretary
  30. Christopher SMYRNIOS appointedSecretary
  31. Pieter OUDEMANS resignedDirector
  32. Kathryn Lylie SERKIS appointedDirector
  33. Andrew Ralph Bewley FAULKNER resignedDirector
  34. Robert CHAPMAN appointedDirector
  35. Clare Louise RILEY appointedDirector
  36. Jane Augusta HOWELL appointedDirector
  37. Pieter OUDEMANS appointedDirector
  38. Philip OBRIEN resignedDirector
  39. Angela Emma Isabel PHILLIPS resignedDirector
  40. Dominic Jonathan HARDISTY appointedDirector
  41. Onder BICER resignedDirector
  42. Juliet ALDERDICE appointedSecretary
  43. Patrick ANIM ADDO appointedDirector
  44. Onder BICER appointedDirector
  45. Andrew Ralph Bewley FAULKNER appointedDirector
  46. Philip OBRIEN appointedDirector
  47. Angela Emma Isabel PHILLIPS appointedDirector
  48. Anne Victoria WORSLEY appointedDirector
  49. Company incorporatedPrivate company limited by guarantee

Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.