Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

THEATRE ROYAL (PLYMOUTH) LIMITED

EducationTrainingArtsCulture
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Why are there 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£17,368£18,790£-1,422£1,050£12,984£3,19521667
31/03/23£16,741£17,515£-774£873£14,406£4,1152.81628
31/03/22£10,370£10,645£-275£300£15,180£4,2634.81542
31/03/21£7,851£7,617£234£448£15,455£3,79061530
31/03/20?£16,658£17,204£-546£1,462£15,220£3,4952.418320
31/03/18£14,169£14,102£67£1,156£15,984£3,50631650
31/03/17£17,011£17,281£-270£1,121£15,917£2,7831.91760
31/03/16£16,770£16,389£381£1,115£16,188£2,5411.91720
31/03/15£12,738£13,837£-1,099£966£16,247£2,4022.11580
31/03/14£22,789£16,742£6,047£1,461£17,346£4,8773.52010
31/03/13£18,474£17,775£699£3,113£11,299£5,2443.52070
31/03/12*£17,689£16,835£854£3,119£10,600£4,3943.12810
31/03/11£17,107£16,852£255£2,583£9,746£3,1652.33030
31/03/10£17,264£17,081£183£2,533£9,491£2,5391.83040
29/03/09*£17,542£17,841£-299£2,524£9,308£2,0281.45580
30/03/08£17,210£17,440£-230£3,752£9,608£1,9381.34860
02/04/07£16,816£16,849£-33£2,690£9,838£1,7811.33490
02/04/06£12,740£12,990£-250n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/05*£16,506£15,349£1,157n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/03/04£15,607£14,562£1,045n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 36%
Liabilities/Income: 43%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 25%
Reserves/Spending: 2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 43 years

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Devon, Plymouth City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£4,531,313
National Lottery Community Fund£363,375
Garfield Weston Foundation£300,546
Backstage Trust£67,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Space 2023
£363,375 26/07/2023
This funding will be used to continue a drama activities project to support people with multiple and complex needs. The project aims to improve wellbeing social integration and emotional resilience through creative activities.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Tiny Tales: Increasing children’s oracy through arts-based learning and teaching
£2,400 18/01/2023
Theatre Royal Plymouth is an established regional theatre presenting large-scale, subsidised and early career work. They deliver an embedded engagement and learning programme which provides opportunities for children and young people from Plymouth ....more
Backstage Trust - Training Schemes grant
£67,000 26/04/2022
Two eighteen-month technical residencies
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£700,000 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 funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£300,546 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Theatre Royal Plymouth
£26,977 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£1,207,313 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has ....more
DCMS - Theatre Royal Plymouth
£1,896,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - TRP CRF Round 2
£728,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£1,185,500 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Theatre Royal Plymouth
£39,900 14/11/2018
Journeys
National Lottery Community Fund - Funky Llama
£256,880 22/06/2018
36
Theatre Royal Plymouth works to provide creative opportunities for people of all ages. This project is a platform where adults with learning disabilities participate in a programme of activities and professional music events to develop well-being, ....more
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£1,185,500 01/04/2018
National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£296,375 01/04/2018
To support National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
DCMS - With Flying Colours
£1,000,000 01/04/2018
With Flying Colours
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Theatre Royal Plymouth
£20,100 27/03/2018
24
Lab Company
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Theatre Royal (Plymouth) Limited
£23,515 13/11/2017
36
This project will provide dance and drama sessions to disabled children and young people. Through taking part in the activities it will help to improve their confidence, improve their emotional well being and learn how to work as part of a team.
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Space
£131,496 20/09/2017
47
This is a continuation and development project based in Plymouth, which aims to use drama and related activities to support people with multiple and complex needs to develop a sense of well-being, social integration and resilience. This project will ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Theatre Royal Plymouth
£136,123 01/03/2017
36
Towards the development of the theatre's offer for young people in areas of educational, social and economic disadvantage.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Theatre Royal (Plymouth) Limited
£52,827 09/02/2017
36
This project provides a weekly drama group and school workshops for children who are refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. Through taking part in the sessions, the children will increase self-esteem, improve communication skills reduce isolation.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Theatre Royal Plymouth
£10,000 22/10/2014
Young Company
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Space
£99,470 03/12/2013
37
The continuation of a project run by Theatre Royal Plymouth since September 2010 to raise the aspirations and confidence of adults who have multiple and complex needs including homelessness, reoffending, substance misuse and mental illness. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Funky Llama
£290,852 30/05/2013
48
This is a continuation of an existing project that aims to increase the life skills and opportunities for adults with learning disabilities through active participation in the creation and delivery of a programme of performance activities and events ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Theatre Royal Plymouth
£90,000 21/11/2012
Towards the costs of developing the 'Funky Llama' programme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Space
£49,739 15/07/2010
36
This project will support socially excluded people in Plymouth through the provision of theatre-based arts activities. The project aims to help people find ways of expressing themselves better using a variety of theatrical techniques and ideas and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (15)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/15 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 37-69
  • ALASTAIR COOMER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Casting Director
  • ANDREW JOHN HENDY IBBS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Managing Director
  • ANJINDER KAUR BUAL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • BRONWEN LACEY Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired
  • DAME DARCEY ANDREA BUSSELL DBE Appointed: 2023
  • DAWN MARIE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • EMMA-MARIE LAURA HUXHAM Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Global Talent Management Director
  • HANNAH MAY SLOGGETT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Co-Director
  • JAMES THOMAS PIDGEON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
  • JULIE ANNE NASH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • LYNDA JANE GRZELINSKI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • SAMRA SAID Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Producer
  • SARAH LOUISE FYSH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Content, The Met Office
  • SARAH MCADAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Academic Dean
  • SHONA ELIZABETH GODEFROY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/03/1982, number: 284545
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/05/1981, number: 01560651
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR12: 17 days late, AR09: 2 days late, AR05: 79 days late,
Main office

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Objectives

(I) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC (II) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES FOR ANY OF THE PURPOSES SET OUT IN (I) OR (II) PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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