Taking Flight Theatre Company

We make theatre productions with embedded access at start of the artistic process, employing teams of professional Deaf, disabled & non disabled creatives. We run workshops & training to upskill emerging disabled & non disabled creatives. We explore new methods- human and technological- of pushing the boundaries of creative access, and we share our learning through symposia & events.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice, Local

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £647,532 and spent £481,830.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 183%, from £229,040 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £647,532 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 74% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Arts Council Grants gave £484,645 in the year to 31 March 2025, 75% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 7 funders who gave £590,485 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 14 grants to this charity since 2011, worth at least £300,469.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Aisling LammondAppointed 10 March 2026
• Alan Chappell-WilliamsAppointed 13 March 2023
• Andrew TinleyAppointed 8 July 2020
• Benjamin Owen- JonesAppointed 8 July 2020
• Dr Marta MinierAppointed 8 July 2020
• Elizabeth Sarah PriceAppointed 13 May 2025
• Lisa De BenedictisAppointed 13 March 2023
• Omoregie David OmoruyiAppointed 10 March 2026
• Simon WhittamAppointed 12 December 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1131762

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 September 2009

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 SEPTEMBER 2008 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 22 AUGUST 2009

Company number

06690647This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.takingflighttheatre.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth