Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

THE ENGLISH STAGE COMPANY LIMITED 

English Stage Company is a leading force in world theatre, finding, developing and producing new plays. An artistically led theatre, we create the conditions for writers nationally and internationally to flourish and through a strategic programme of education and outreach work, to engage with the widest audience across all ages and communities, promoting understanding and enjoyment of the arts.
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

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 high relative to funds raised
Established: 60 years
(69 years as a company)

www.royalcourttheatre.com

info@royalcourttheatre.com

02075655050

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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£6,634£7,441£-806£1,218£1,419£9071.5910
31/03/22*£5,904£6,553£-650£1,002£2,226£1,4682.7940
31/03/21£5,601£4,410£1,191£372£2,875£1,5274.2800
31/03/20£6,635£7,930£-1,295£1,123£1,684£7641.21130
31/03/19£6,985£7,007£-22£1,216£2,980£1,0011.71190
31/03/18£7,950£8,154£-204£1,403£3,920£9481.41250
31/03/17*£7,947£7,885£63£588£5,041£9501.41250
31/03/16£7,504£7,775£-271£1,349£5,896£9331.41240
31/03/15£8,054£7,185£869£1,448£7,086£1,0111.71240
31/03/14£6,007£6,105£-97£1,403£7,122£1,00721200
31/03/13£7,264£7,132£132£1,569£8,143£1,1121.91250
31/03/12£8,061£7,601£459£2,481£8,914£1,26521210
31/03/11£7,471£7,302£169£2,536£9,372£8641.41210
31/03/10£5,677£5,329£348£1,208£10,114£6261.41090
31/03/09£5,412£5,279£133£1,134£10,707£5031.11060
31/03/08£5,177£5,117£59£1,142£11,573£4691.11030
31/03/07£5,632£5,656£-24£840£12,486£3970.81110
31/03/06*£4,224£4,398£-173£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£4,206£3,903£303£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£4,206£3,927£279£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 24.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 16.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 64%
Reserves/Spending: 1.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Who works here?
  • 91 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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£5,789,995
John Lyon's Charity£124,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
David & Elaine Potter Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Royal Court Young Writers Programme
£90,000 17/11/2022
The 21 Schools Project
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£375,000 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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£30,000 01/05/2020
Participation at the Royal Court Theatre
DCMS - Royal Court Theatre NPO 18-22
£2,353,761 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 - Royal Court Culture Recovery
£750,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 31/10/2019
12
Core funding
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Royal Court Young Writers Programme
£34,000 14/06/2019
12
Royal Court Theatre School Residencies
DCMS - Royal Court Theatre NPO 18-22
£2,311,234 01/04/2019
£1.6bn invested in the key arts and culture infrastrucure organisations in England for a 4 year period
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 16/07/2018
12
Core funding
DCMS - Royal Court Theatre NPO 18-22
£2,311,234 01/04/2018
Royal Court Theatre NPO 18-22
DCMS - Royal Court Theatre NPO 18-22
£577,809 01/04/2018
To support Royal Court Theatre NPO 18-22
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Royal Court Theatre
£90,100 27/03/2018
36
Writers Group - 2018 - Covid-19 flexibility agreed
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Royal Court Theatre
£73,700 15/06/2017
£73,700 to refurbish lifts; for additional assisted hearing equipment, improved signalling and signage; upgrades and supplements to emergency evacuation system. The grant is conditional on renewal ....more
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 09/03/2017
12
Core funding
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Open Court: a 3-week festival by and for young people
£25,000 06/06/2016
2
Support for a three week programme of plays, workshops and special events curated, conceived, produced, budgeted and executed by young people, for young people.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Royal Court Theatre
£2,700 28/01/2016
£2,700 towards improving accessibility, with £1,800 for an access audit and £900 for staff training.
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 24/02/2015
Core funding
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Royal Court Theatre
£90,000 22/10/2014
Writers Group - 2014
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to English Stage Company Ltd
£230,000 24/04/2014
Towards the development of the Royal Court Theatre's programme of support for writers and theatre-makers across the UK.
David & Elaine Potter Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 20/08/2013
Core funding
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Royal Court Theatre
£150,000 24/01/2012
Key projects
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Age Range of Trustees: 36-80
  • MAHDI YAHYA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/11/1963, number: 231242
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/10/1954, number: 00539332
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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 57 days late, AR17: 0 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 25 days late,
Main office

ROYAL COURT THEATRE
SLOANE SQUARE
LONDON
SW1W 8AS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OR ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS IN THE THEATRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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