Cotton Shed Theatre Company

Analysis

Cotton Shed Theatre Company is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in March 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2024, Cotton Shed Theatre Company reported income of £41k and spending of £89k, spending 218% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2024, income grew from £40k to £41k (+2.1%), an average of +0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 481%. Over the whole period it spent 178% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Cotton Shed Theatre Company sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Golden Age Social Day Care, Bradford (£41k), Every Breath Lung Cancer Support Group (£41k) and Positive Pathways (£41k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity's latest annual return or accounts as overdue. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.