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Cody Musical Theatre Company

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 257135HampshireArts, culture, heritage and science
Income£88k2025-04-30
Spending£100ksame year
Spent / received111%5-year average
Size in its cause77th pctArts, culture, heritage and science
Registered1969Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Cody Musical Theatre Company is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in December 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Cody Musical Theatre Company reported income of £88k and spending of £100k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £1,468 to £88k (+5874%), an average of +178% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 5072%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Cody Musical Theatre Company sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Opera on Location (£88k), Bluetack Collective (£88k) and Progressive Players (Gateshead) Limited (£88k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.

Income and spending

£0£25k£50k£75k£100k2021 Income: £1,4682021 Spending: £5,53420212022 Income: £75,9202022 Spending: £82,28020222023 Income: £75,9212023 Spending: £82,28020232024 Income: £82,0182024 Spending: £88,96620242025 Income: £87,6972025 Spending: £100,3522025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Musical and operatic society

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