Registered Number: 3002661 Charity Number: 1044532 **The Actors of Dionysus (A Company limited by guarantee)** **TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31[st] December 2025** THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) ## **Contents** Legal and administrative information 3 Trustees’ Report Accountant’s Report Statement of financial activities Balance Sheet Notes forming part of the financial statements 2 THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) ## **LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION For the year end 31[st] December 2025** ## Trustees David G. G. Bullen Helen Tennison Caroline Bristow Despoina Christianoudi Olga Gekht Fiona Macintosh Shelley Warren Mai Musié Company Registered Number 3002661 Charity Registered Number 1044532 Registered Office 25 St Luke’s Road Brighton BN2 9ZD Accountants R Kennedy t/a Brayhaven Limited Lower Ickneild Way, Marsworth, Tring, Herts, HP23 4LN Bankers Lloyds Bank North Street Brighton BN1 1GL 3 THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) ## THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS ## TRUSTEES REPORT ## For the year end 31st December 202 5 The Trustees, who are directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, submit their annual report and the financial statements of Actors of Dionysus ( **aod** ) Limited (the charitable company) for the year ended 31[st] December 2025. The Trustees confirm that the annual report and financial statements of the charitable company comply with current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charitable company’s governing document and the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and Reporting by charities’ revised 2019. ## **Method of appointment or election of trustees** The management of the charitable company is the responsibility of the Trustees who are elected and co-opted under the terms of the Articles of Association. ## **Charitable Objectives** The continuation of the performance of new adaptations of ancient Greek drama and new writings inspired by myth. The company intends to maintain its strong outreach programme with workshops and talks, published education materials including: free online resources adaptations, DVDS, audioCDs, and books of essays (all available via the company website) and its digital presence via titles available on the platform Digital Theatre Plus, as well as its highly physical, visual and poetic performance style, exploring new pilot projects, including further expansion of its Magic from Myth coding and storytelling project. The company continues to expand its community outreach and engagement work, strengthening the profile of its local audience base via its award-winning LIONHOUSE venue. ## **Review of activities and future development:** ## **Summary of 2025** 2025 was a year of consolidation and renewed creative energy. Building on the foundations laid in 2024, we strengthened our educational offer, deepened our partnerships, expanded _Magic from Myth_ across Sussex, and continued our longstanding commitment to supporting emerging artists through the KCL Greek Play and Brighton Fringe. With new team members, a small pot of funding via Big Give #ArtsForImpact (£3978) and new artistic work in development, 2025 marked a quiet but hopeful step forward for Actors of Dionysus. 4 THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) ## **Board, Staffing & Governance** Following the regeneration of our Board in 2024, this year saw continued stability and strategic focus. We also welcomed a new Consultant Administrator/Assistant Producer, who replaced our outgoing Administrator. They bring extensive experience as a theatre producer and marketing manager, strengthening our administrative, producing, and communications capacity. Their ongoing education facilitation with Historic workshops will bring, we hope, some re focusing and redirection for our own engagement work. ## **Projects in Brief** ##  **Magic from Myth – Expansion in Sussex** - - Our flagship digital storytelling and myth based coding programme grew significantly in 2025. Building on the success of the Brighton pilots, we: - Expanded into Worthing, delivering new sessions at AudioActive and forming deeper relationships with local youth organisations. - Ran additional workshops in Brighton, with returning participants and overwhelmingly positive feedback. - Continued to prioritise SEND inclusion, with carers and families repeatedly praising - - the workshops as _welcoming, sensory aware, and empowering_ for neurodivergent young people. - Benefited from Big Give #ArtsForImpact match-funding, enabling us to keep sessions free and accessible. - Participants consistently described the workshops as fun, creative, confidence building, and unlike anything else available locally. Demand continues to grow and plans for expansion are ongoing. ##  **KCL Greek Play –** _**Elektra: A Throne Restored**_ We continued our role as Executive Directors for the KCL Greek Play, supporting the 2025 production of Elektra – A Throne Restored, written and directed by KCL student Ines Neacsa. This student led production ran from 10–12 June 2025 at the Greenwood Theatre and explored themes of political division, generational conflict, and moral responsibility. The play reimagined Elektra’s struggle to reclaim the throne of Mycenae, inviting audiences - to reflect on power and justice. Pre show talks by leading scholars enriched the experience for school and public audiences. ##  **KCL Greek Play 2026 –** _**The Clouds (transitioning back to Spring)**_ In Autumn 2025 we began the transition from June performance period back to an early March run so development work with the student creative team for the 2026 production began earlier than usual. A pitch by Giulia Balsamo for _The Clouds_ , was selected and the work began to mentor young artists and support high-quality student-led theatre. 5 THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) ##  **LIONHOUSE at Brighton Fringe – Award** - **Winning for the Second Year Running** For the second consecutive year, LIONHOUSE won the Brighton Fringe Audience Choice Award for Best Venue, a testament to the warmth, creativity, and professionalism of our team and visiting artists. We hosted five productions in 2025: - _Verity_ - _Dionysus_ - _The Labours of Hercules_ - _Arias in the Garden_ - _Lionhouse Cabaret_ Audience numbers were good throughout, the sun shone and artists praised the supportive environment and high production values. ## **Artistic Development** Our Artistic Director, Tamsin Shasha continued developing her new solo show, _Forgive Me,_ (in association with aod) now being prepared for its 2026 Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe run. The project will be receiving support in kind from HH Productions and the West End Arts Theatre, enabling rehearsal space, and technical development. ## **Conferences and Training** As members of the Family Arts Campaign Tamsin Shasha attended the annual Family Arts Leadership symposium at Cecil Sharp House, London in March on behalf of aod and subsequently entered our Magic from Myth coding workshops into their Fantastic for Families award. We were not selected on this occasion. Tamsin and aod remain committed to starting a Family Arts Network in Sussex to support the provision of theatre for young people and connect with other organisations who do the same to share resources, etc. This project is funding dependant and requires support to envision. Tamsin Shasha and Mark Katz also attended regular Brighton Fringe venue meetings throughout the year to further establish Lionhouse as a community venue. Tamsin Shasha undertook training with Helen Tennison (solo theatre lab 1 & 2) to further her creative practice. This was not paid by aod, but is an investment in her ongoing CPD and helps toward the development of Forgive Me. The online and in person course culminated in presented sharings at BOLD, Elephant & Castle in London. ## **Education** Our education programme continued throughout the year with educational workshops delivered by Mark Katz and Tamsin Shasha. These were severely reduced in number but had the same geographical reach as 2024. Feedback remained consistently excellent, with teachers praising the clarity, energy, and curriculum relevance of our sessions. 6 THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) ## **Communications & Social Media** We welcomed two volunteer social-media marketers (via the online platform REACH) in July 2025 and in Dec 2025. As a result our online presence has been revitalised and it has supported our campaigns for #ArtsForImpact _Magic from Myth_ , Brighton Fringe, and the KCL Greek Play. ## **Funding** In addition to Big Give #ArtsForImpact support, we continued to receive small ongoing donations from Friends and Supporters, helping us to continue our operation, but it was felt that in order to grow and develop strategically that much greater investment and sponsorship is required going forward. This is an urgent necessity for the charity and a commitment going forward. ## **Risk Management** The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the Company is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finances of the Company and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate the Company’s exposure to the major risks. In terms of governance all current company policies have been reviewed, updated and signed off. The Trustees are currently reviewing an AI policy to be added to our company website. ## **Trustees’ responsibilities** Company and charity law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustees to prepare financial statement for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the surplus or deficit of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements the Trustees have: 1. Selected suitable accounting policies and applied them constantly; 2. Made judgments and estimates that are fair and reasonable; 3. Stated whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and 4. Prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis (unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Trust will continue in operation) The Trustees have overall responsibility for ensuring that the charitable company has an appropriate system of controls, financial and otherwise. They are also responsible for 7 THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS (A Company limited by guarantee) keeping proper accounting records, which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act, 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the detection and prevention of fraud and other irregularities. This report was approved by the board on INSERT DATE and signed on its behalf by ## Amanda Comber Signed: Amanda Comber (Chair) Date: 5[th] May 2026 8 ## THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS ## INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31 December 2025 |Note
INCOME
From Generated Funds
Voluntary Income
2
Activities for generating funds
3
From Charitable Activity
Workshops
Other Income
Sundry Income/Interest
Theatre Tax Relief
TOTAL INCOME
EXPENDITURE
Costs of generating Voluntary Income
Cost of Goods Sold and other costs
4
From Charitable Activity
Workshops
Governance costs
5
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
NET INCOME/(DEFICIT) FOR THE YEAR|Unrestricted
Funds
£
5859
10060
15919
7589
86
4598
28192
0
35377
0
1097
36474
-8282|Restricted
2025
2024
Funds
Total
Total
£
£
£
2889
8748
12109
0
10060
7522
2889
18808
19631
0
7589
13697
0
86
189
0
4598
5561
2889
31081
39078
0
0
0
2889
38266
50816
0
0
0
0
1097
487
2889
39363
51303
0
-8282
-12225|2023
Total
£
45432
10651| |---|---|---|---| ||||56083
10173
166
14182| ||||80604
0
65967
0
584| ||||66551
14053| ## THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS ## BALANCE SHEET At December 31st 2025 |Note
TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
1
CURRENT ASSETS
Stock
1
Debtors
7
Cash at Bank and in Hand
subtotal
CREDITORS
falling due within 1 year
8
NET CURRENT ASSETS
NET ASSETS
Represented By:
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds|2025
36
0
4598
12526
17124
(689)
16435
16471
1989
14482
16,471|£
2024
48
0
5562
19542
25104
(400)
24704
24752
0
24752
24,752|£
2023
64
0
15570
21693| |---|---|---|---| ||||37263
(350)
36,913| ||||36,977| ||||4443
15550| ||||36,977| In preparing these accounts: (a) For the year ended 31 December 2025 the company is entitled to the exemption from audit under Section 477(2) of the Companies Act 2006; (b) Members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006, and; (c)The directors acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. (d) These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime. The financial statements were approved by the Board on ………………………… ……………………………. Director ## THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31 December 2025 ## 1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES ## Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements The financial statements have been prapared under the historical cost convention. ## Company Status The Charitable Company is a company limited by guarantee. The members of the company are the Trustees named on page l. In the event of the charitable company being wound up the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £10 per member of the charitable company. ## Fund Acoounting General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charitable Company and which have not been designated for other purposes. Restricted funds are funds which are to be used accordance with specific instructions imposed by the donors which have been raised by the Trustees for particular purposes. Income All incoming resources are included in the Income & Expenditure Account when the Charitable company is legally entitled to the inoome and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. ## Expenditure All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been included under expense categories that aggregate all costs for allocation to activities. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular activities, they have been allocated on a basis consistent With the use of the resources. Overheads have been allocated on the basis of charity expenditure ## Cash Flow The company has taken advantage of the exemption from the requirement to produce a cash flow statement on the grounds that it is a small charitable company. ## Turnover Tumover comprises the invoiced value of the goods and services supplied by the company. The company is not registered for Value Added Tax. Stocks Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and market value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow - moving items. ## Tangible Fixed Assets Office Equipment is written off on a 25% reducing balance basis. |Cost
Balance at 1 January 2025
912
Additions during the year
0
Charge during the year
Balance at 31 December 2025
912|Depreciation
864
16
880|2025
Net Book
Value| |---|---|---| |||48
0
-12| |||36| ## THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS ## NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31 December 2025 |INCOME
Unrestricted
Restricted
Funds
Funds
£
£
2 - Voluntary Income
Membership Fees
1102
0
Donations
4260
1989
Grants
900
0
Gift Aid Tax Repayment
497
0
6759
1989
3 - Activities for Generating Funds
Publications
0
0
Workshop Income
7589
0
Venue Income
10060
0
17649
0
EXPENDITURE
4 - Cost of Goods Sold and other costs
Production costs and purchases
1125
0
Staff costs
29384
0
Miscellaneous
3214
0
Postage
0
0
Staff Expenses & Travel
1651
0
Stationery
0
0
Computer Costs
0
0
Phone/Internet
329
0
Depreciation
12
0
Publicity
0
0
Repairs & Renewals
0
0
Hire of Space
1725
0
Insurance
826
0
Expenditure Allocated to restricted funds
-1989
1989
Training
0
0
36277
0
1989
5 - Governance
Accountancy
689
0
Consultancy
300
0
Claiming Theatre Tax Relief
0
0
Bank Charges
108
0
1097
0|2025
Total
£
1102
6249
900
497
8748
0
7589
10060
17649
1125
29384
3214
0
1651
0
0
329
12
0
0
1725
826
0
0
38266
689
300
0
108
1097|2024
Total
£
2821
1174
8114
0
12109
0
13697
7522
21219
5227
37392
1411
0
2908
0
0
544
16
0
0
2492
826
0
0
50816
400
0
0
87
487|2023
Total
£
811
14356
29447
818| |---|---|---|---| ||||45432
0
10173
10651| ||||20824
1445
57825
1372
184
2100
0
0
509
22
168
46
1480
816
0
0| ||||65967
350
150
0
84| ||||584| ## 6 - Trustees Remuneration & Expenses No Trustee received any remuneration or reimbursement of expenses during the year. (2024 £nil) ## 7 - Debtors |7 - Debtors|||| |---|---|---|---| |Trading Debtors
Gift Aid Repayment
Theatre Tax Relief
8 - Creditors
Trade
Loan
Accruals|0
0
4598
4598
0
0
689
689|0
0
5561
5561
0
0
400
400|0
0
15570| ||||15570
0
0
350| ||||350| ## THE ACTORS OF DIONYSUS ## Accountant's Report Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 In accordance with instructions received I have prepared, without carrying out an audit, the accounts set out on pages 1 to 4 from the accounting records of The Actors of Dionysus and from the information and explanations supplied to me. R Kennedy FCMA Date: 21/03/2026 Brayhaven Ltd Timbers House, Lower Icknield Way, Marsworth, Tring, Herts, HP23 4LN ## Restricted Funds Analysis |||2025||2024||2023| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Opening Balance||||||| |Received During Year||||||| |The Big Give|3978||0||2996|| |Arts Council England (ACE)|0||0||29447|| |Foyle Foundation|900||0||6500|| |Doyly Carte|0||0||3000|| |University of London|0||0||1350|| |Chalk Cliff funding|0||3211||0|| |subtotal||4878||3211||43293| |Carried Forwards from prior year||||||| |The Big Give|0||1498||1719|| |Arts Council England (ACE)|0||2945||0|| |subtotal||0||4443||1719| |Carried Forwards to 2026||||||| |The Big Give|1989||0||1498|| |Arts Council England (ACE)|0||0||2945|| |subtotal||1989||0||4443| |Used in 2025||2889||7654||40569| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examlnerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesldirectorsl members of Acf On accounts for the year ended ,ILL- li)2( Charlty no.: ¥Sz company no.: ooI6L I Set out on pages indude the page num￿ of addit￿n4* sheets. I report to the chadty trustees on my examlnatlon of the aCt￿unts of the Company for the year ended Re6ponsibilitie6 and basls of report As the charity's trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company lawy, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance Nmth fv requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Acr). Ha￿ng satlsfied myself that the acu)unts of the Gompany are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 20￿ Act and are eligible for independent examination. I report in respect of my examinabon of your chariVs accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (°the 2011 Acf). In carying out my examination, I have foll0v￿d the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 ACL Independent examine￿$ statement I have completed my examlnatlon. I confirni that no material matters have come to my attents.on ") thich gives me cause to believe that: ' aGGounting records were not kept in aGGordanLZ With section 386 of the Companles Act 2006: • the accounts do not accord with such reeords,. or . the accounts do not comply wrth relevant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Compani8s Act 2(X)6 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter Gonsidered as part of an independent examination. or .the accounts have not been prepared in accordance wth the char￿"e5 SORP (FRS102). IER October 2018 I have no concem6 and have come a(xoss no other matters in connection with the examination to Nthlch attentlon should be dr8vm in this report in order to enable a proper uTraerstandiTrJ of the accounts to te ￿￿hed. ' Please delata the words the brdckets rfthey dD not appty. Signed: Name: fLu fvi fLf Relevant profe88ional qualification(s) or body (if any): Addrnss: Ti oB(-Q-£ Dob4 L-IL I CrfiJw' ? L LvI¥Y MAISbJo KT HI ZS Lpu Section B Disclosure Only cnmplete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of con￿rn {see CC32, Independent examination of charty aecounts: direthons and guidance for 8xaminers). Glvè hare brlef detalls of any items that th• oxaminor wishos to disGIose. IER October 2018