Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE LIMITED 

Birmingham Repertory Theatre is a producing theatre based in Birmingham, UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 61 years
(89 years as a company)

www.birmingham-rep.co.uk

rep.accounts@birmingham-rep.co.uk

01212452000

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£14,278£14,725£-447£3,319£5,135£2,2441.821721
31/03/22£12,587£10,128£2,459£1,402£5,582£2,6623.215142
31/03/21£6,364£4,432£1,932£727£3,123£2,59371090
31/03/20£10,314£11,391£-1,077£2,230£1,071£8470.914752
31/03/19£11,098£11,506£-408£2,395£2,241£1,937216425
31/03/18£13,251£13,292£-41£2,049£2,649£2,27021560
31/03/17£11,210£11,558£-348£75£2,689£2,2732.41470
31/03/16£10,745£10,342£403£1,503£3,008£2,2172.61500
31/03/15£8,434£8,380£55£94£2,417£2,0152.91460
31/03/14£7,012£7,057£-45£145£2,362£1,9943.41100
31/03/13*£5,408£5,192£215£60£2,407£1,9004.4770
31/03/12£5,463£4,869£594£78£2,191£1,7344.3980
31/03/11£5,810£5,409£401£91£1,597£1,2702.81050
31/03/10£7,277£10,078£-2,802£100£1,196£1,1591.4690
31/03/09£7,859£8,445£-586£108£3,998£8391.2950
31/03/08£6,321£7,195£-875£64£4,584£7291.21300
31/03/07£6,914£6,841£73£49£5,458£7281.31320
31/03/06£5,729£5,494£235£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£6,368£6,150£218£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£6,473£5,242£1,231£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 31.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 22.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 48%
Liabilities/Income: 34%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 44%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 217 employees
  • 21 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Croatia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£4,346,362
Esmee Fairbairn£210,000
The Foyle Foundation£150,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd
£0 06/12/2023
Grant of £20,000 towards destratification of main auditorium. Grant paid via Theatres Trust (22870).
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd
£10,000 20/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£150,000 03/12/2021
towards redeveloping front of house spaces, adding a dedicated entrance and creating new/enhanced café and bar
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£150,000 05/11/2021
Open House
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£545,000 27/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd
£200,000 31/08/2021
24
Towards project costs Towards project costs for Foundry, which will enable a different, combined approach to artist development and community engagement, equipping artists and communities with ....more
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£1,867,698 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - Birmingham Rep Culture Recovery Fund
£1,380,023 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Birmingham Rep Culture Recovery Fund 2
£553,641 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£1,833,953 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£458,488 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
National Lottery Community Fund - Shifting the Dial
£746,112 26/03/2018
36
Shifting the Dial
Birmingham City Council - Birmingham Weekender
£200,000 17/11/2016
BIRMINGHAM WEEKENDER; Arts and culture;
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd
£210,000 30/06/2016
36
Towards continued support of The Foundry, Birmingham Rep's flagship artistic development programme for emerging writers, theatre makers and directors from the Birmingham area.
Birmingham City Council - Rep Revenue
£525,000 01/04/2016
REP REVENUE; Arts and culture;
Birmingham City Council - On The Edge Festival
£50,000 14/01/2016
ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL; Arts and culture;
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre
£15,750 12/03/2015
The Foundry working with 12 new writers, 12 directors and 12 theatre makers
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd
£126,114 31/10/2013
Towards The Foundry, an intensive development programme for young theatre professionals from Birmingham, developing emerging talent and creating a new model for producing theatres.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre
£5,000 24/09/2012
Foundry Programme
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd
£160,000 06/12/2010
24
Towards Project costs Towards the community outreach programme, delivered in collaboration with Birmingham City Library Service.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-66
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/06/1963, number: 223660
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/01/1935, number: 00295910
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 5 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE JOYCE FARLEY EDUCATIONAL TRUST on 09/01/2023
Main office

Birmingham Repertory Theatre
6 Centenary Square
BIRMINGHAM
B1 2EP

Objectives

(1) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING, FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND A HIGH STANDARD OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR DRAMATIC ART IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND IN SUCH OTHER PLACES IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM TO BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE INTELLECTUAL WEAL OF THE PUBLIC(2) TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN STUDENTS IN DRAMA, MUSIC, PAINTING AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTS, AND TO PROMOTE THE RECOGNITION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN STUDENTS BY THE INSTITUTION AND PRESENTATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, GRANTS, MEDALS OR OTHER PRIZES OR BENEFACTIONSFOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

Defined Area of Benefit:

BIRMINGHAM AND SUCH OTHER PLACES IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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