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Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

LEEDS GRAND THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE LIMITED 

Maintain and develop the Leeds Grand Theatre, City Varieties Music Hall and Hyde Park Picture House. Offer drama, opera, ballet, musicals, comedy, variety, pantomime and arthouse / mainstream films. Increase engagement with performing arts and with heritage of these listed buildings through innovative learning and interpretation programmes.
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:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £698,237 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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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£17,228£16,519£709£0£4,701£-698-0.521141
31/03/22£11,132£10,268£865£0£-1,410£-4,032-4.7179134
31/03/21£3,573£4,613£-1,040£0£-4,639£-5,402-14.122092
31/03/20£14,077£14,678£-601£0£-2,036£-3,048-2.5246128
31/03/19£15,533£15,125£408£0£-492£-1,483-1.2225108
31/03/18£14,322£14,531£-209£3£-606£-1,124-0.92310
31/03/17*£12,708£12,826£-119£0£-278£-943-0.92110
31/03/16£10,691£10,421£269£0£57£-736-0.82220
31/03/15£14,230£13,407£823£96£-471£-1,144-1960
31/03/14£10,651£10,923£-272£134£-963£-1,354-1.5960
31/03/13£14,188£14,630£-442£157£-936£-1,241-11850
31/03/12£10,033£10,153£-120£160£-432£-793-0.91730
31/03/11£7,804£7,820£-16£119£123£1130.21540
31/03/10£7,302£7,497£-195£13£-711£-844-1.41530
31/03/09£8,555£8,692£-136£35£217£1190.21500
31/03/08£8,411£8,290£121£38£447£3660.51510
31/03/07*£8,411£8,290£121£45£625£5480.81570
31/03/06£2,734£3,258£-524£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£5,817£5,779£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£6,677£6,633£44£0£0£0n/a00
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 58%
Liabilities/Income: 36%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: -15%
Reserves/Spending: -0.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Established: 54 years

www.leedsgrandtheatre.com

ANNE.HARRISON@LEEDSGRANDTHEATRE.COM

01132977013

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leeds City,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 211 employees
  • 41 volunteers

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£3,581,251
National Lottery Heritage Fund£119,900
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£3,820
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Leeds Grand Theatre (Opera North)
£0 07/12/2022
Grant of £19,922 towards measures to cut water consumption. Grant paid via Theatres Trust (22870)
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds
£10,000 26/05/2022
Victorian Theatres Small Repairs Fund
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£1,288,643 26/10/2021
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
DCMS - Hyde Park Picture House - Renewing our historic cinema for all
£142,800 15/12/2020
Hyde Park Picture House - Renewing our historic cinema for all
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House Ltd
£119,900 07/09/2020
COVID19: Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House Ltd.
DCMS - Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House Ltd Covid Recovery
£1,545,163 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Leeds Heritage Theatres CRF Round 2
£604,645 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Hyde Park Picture House
£3,820 15/11/2019
We want to provide free cinema screenings, as a powerful way for people living with dementia to reconnect with memories.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Leeds Grand Theatre (Opera North)
£200,000 05/12/2018
Education studio in redeveloped theatre
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000 21/06/2018
The Picture House Project
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House Ltd
£10,000 24/05/2018
21
The Picture House Project; restoration and conservation
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House Ltd
£2,442,100 26/07/2016
Hyde Park Picture House - Renewing our historic cinema for all
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-77
  • ANNA FRANKS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing & Communications Consultant
  • KRIS BREWSTER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Products, Proposition & Corporate Communic
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/07/1970, number: 500408
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/04/1970, number: 00978161
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 31 days late, AR07: 198 days late,
Main office

Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House L
46 New Briggate
LEEDS
LS1 6NU

Objectives

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 AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THERFOR, - FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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