Overall GiG Score: 4 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

ROYAL COURT LIVERPOOL TRUST LIMITED 

The Royal Court Liverpool Trust was formed in 2008 to safeguard the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool and to engage the local community with the rich heritage of the building and to celebrate its place in the cultural life of the city.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 15 years
(17 years as a company)

www.royalcourttrust.org

ceoadmin@liverpoolsroyalcourt.com

01517025892

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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£403£697£-293n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£1,140£1,073£67£0£7,867£7,83387.630
31/03/21£1,199£1,107£92£0£7,801£7,77684.320
31/03/20*£577£576£1£0£7,710£7,710160.5210
31/03/19£894£659£236£0£7,708£7,673139.830
31/03/18?£2,509£640£1,868£0£7,473£2073.940
30/11/16*£2,108£538£1,570£0£5,605£1884.230
30/11/15£3,079£378£2,701£7£4,035£282950
30/11/14£495£277£218£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/13£319£246£73£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/12£1,139£178£961£178£1,043£1369.120
30/11/11*£262£237£25£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/10£105£53£52£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/09*£64£60£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City,

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£1,299,055
Youth Music£81,320
National Lottery Community Fund£8,470
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Royal Court Theatre Summer School
£8,470 05/03/2021
3
The funding will be used to deliver a Summer School for young people aged 11 – 25 from diverse communities across Liverpool to meet and work together building lasting friendships and mutual ....more
Youth Music - Music - AAA (Acces all Areas)
£81,320 12/02/2021
Music - AAA (Acces all Areas)
DCMS - Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre
£229,140 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 ....more
DCMS - Liverpool's Royal Court Reopening
£729,915 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Liverpool's Royal Court Reopening ll
£340,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Royal Court Theatre Foundation, Liverpool
£40,000 03/05/2017
24
Towards a youth theatre coordinator post, freeing up the community engagement manager to form Liverpool's only Black theatre company, ready for the opening of the new stage, increasing the theatre's ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Liverpool's Royal Court - Access All Areas
£10,000 05/10/2016
12
The organisation want to make theatre performances more accessible for deaf, blind and partially sighted people. They will install an infra-red hearing loop system that can support more than one ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Royal Court Liverpool Trust
£79,400 30/03/2015
Royal Court Theatre Welcome Project
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Royal Court Liverpool Trust
£12,950 22/10/2014
Youth Theatre provision aimed at young people from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds
National Lottery Community Fund - Royal Court Trust Youth Engagement Project 2012 - 2014
£79,200 20/11/2012
36
This project will continue a pilot project that aims to improve the skills of young adults and young people at risk of or have already been excluded from school in Liverpool. The project will enable ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 52-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/04/2009, number: 1129007
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/11/2006, number: 05988546
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR20: 18 days late, AR16: 19 days late, AR11: 27 days late, AR09: 18 days late,
Main office

Royal Court Theatre
1 Roe Street
Liverpool
L1 1HL

Objectives

1 TO CONSERVE AND PRESERVE HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING IN PARTICULAR THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE IN LIVERPOOL. 2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THEATRE AND THE PERFORMING ARTS.3 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF MERSEYSIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN DRAMA, OPERA, MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERSEYSIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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