Governance Statement

Hotbuckle Productions Community Interest Company

Company Number: 05919971

Address:

Mill House Farm, Cruckmeole, Hanwood, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY5 8JN

Contact: 01743 860576

Mobile: 07718747917

Company Purpose:

To deliver high quality, professional, innovative touring theatre productions to venues across the UK and Ireland.
To make these productions accessible, entertaining and challenging for its audiences.
To inspire creativity in all ages and challenge pre-conceived ideas about live performances.
To encourage potential audiences to choose live theatre as a way of entertainment and education to support the arts in the UK and Ireland.
To offer highly professional employment and direction to actors in order to support their career progression.
To combine the pursuit of a social purpose with commercial activities.
To gain income from performances which can be ploughed back into the infrastructure of the company and improve sustainability.
To continually strive to adapt to the changing world of live theatre arts and to work creatively and innovatively to manage these changes.
To support, search out and develop creative partnerships wherever possible.

Company Powers:

Hotbuckle Productions has 2 Directors who own shares in the company.
Adrian Preater is the Artisitc Director who writes, produces and performs. He is paid an irregular wage through income from bookings and dividends during rehearsal and touring periods only.
Gemma Aston, Executive Director is a Volunteer.
Hotbuckle employ a Creative Director who works part time and remotely to book tours and manage relationships with venues. This role is paid from dividends, only.
Hotbuckle employ professional actors on a temporary contract as and when they are required to work.
They ensure quality and consistency through an equal opportunitues audition process.
Hotbuckle work and rehearse from their home: Mill House Farm, Cruckmeole, Hanwood, SY5 8JN.
Hotbuckle offer free accommodation to all actors throughout the duration of the rehearsal period and performance schedule.
Hotbuckle can provide all catering at a small charge to cover costs of the food purchased.
Hotbuckle strive to create affordable productions, work flexibly and closely with venues in order to create mutually beneficial financial outcomes wherever possible.
Hotbuckle have established a reputation for producing and delivering consistently high-quality productions which has been illustrated through the repetition of bookings year after year.
Hotbuckle currently have no board of trustees and are therefore governed by its Directors.
Directors meet monthly to update and deliver projections.
The governing document will be reviewed yearly on or around April 1st wherever possible.