01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- New
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 25 March 2026
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- Not supplied – Not supplied
- Latest income
- Not supplied
- Latest expenditure
- Not supplied
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: 2 Brent Close, BEXLEY, Kent, DA5 3QL
Website recorded by the regulator: www.poetryplays.com (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The charity will present an annual three-day poetry festival featuring interdisciplinary performance across a range of art forms, including song, music, dance, spoken word, theatre and film, with a focus on the role of poetry within the wider arts.
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England
- Welsh Ind
- No
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Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 303
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Other Finance
- Classification Code
- 109
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 309
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- POETRY PLAYS
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2026-03-25T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 25 Mar 2026
- Charitable Objects
- TO ADVANCE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, PRINCIPALLY THE ART OF POETRY, THROUGH REGULAR MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE FESTIVALS AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, TO FACILITATE HIGHER STANDARDS OF WORK IN POETRY
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Charity Policy
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