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

THEATRE ROYAL (NORWICH) TRUST LIMITED

Regional theatre
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

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
28/03/23£18,390£19,036£-646£2,522£7,360£5,2243.3237170
28/03/22£9,300£10,696£-1,395£1,637£8,244£5,6946.4146150
28/03/21£5,759£4,813£946£775£9,639£6,68816.7132200
29/03/20*£17,125£17,515£-389£2,379£8,693£5,6753.9203100
31/03/19£16,347£15,760£587£2,253£9,082£5,6764.3203140
01/04/18£14,232£14,455£-222£2,092£8,495£4,5023.71970
02/04/17£16,874£16,317£557£2,080£8,595£4,2753.11930
03/04/16£14,981£14,068£914£1,638£8,038£3,6893.11800
29/03/15£12,778£12,742£36£1,350£7,186£3,3373.11680
30/03/14£13,158£12,844£314£1,211£7,149£3,24531670
31/03/13£13,360£13,298£62£1,134£6,835£2,5782.31660
01/04/12£12,058£11,915£144£1,091£6,773£2,1122.11640
03/04/11£11,012£10,904£108£1,076£6,629£1,4791.61570
28/03/10£11,642£11,586£56£1,015£6,521£1,1901.21580
29/03/09£10,195£9,884£311£985£6,465£84811580
30/03/08£5,973£5,065£908£432£6,154£8101.91440
01/04/07£11,362£8,432£2,930£734£5,246£1,1471.6990
02/04/06£7,258£7,898£-641n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/05£6,379£6,265£114n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/03/04*£5,731£5,638£93n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 58%
Liabilities/Income: 54%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 71%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 54 years

www.norwichtheatre.org

cat.mcdonald@norwichtheatre.org

01603 598500

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • 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£3,000,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£260,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£150,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Wise About Words
£150,000 08/03/2021
Theatre Royal Norwich will partner with the 11 schools in the Wensum Trust to deliver Wild about Words. This programme will empower teachers and senior leaders working with artists to harness the power of story-sharing and reduce barriers to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£240,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 01/05/2020
School, Training, Participation & Audience Development Programme 2020
DCMS - Norwich Theatre CRF
£3,000,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Norwich Theatre Royal
£67,800 14/11/2013
To End All Wars

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-76
  • ANNA MUDEKA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Musician
  • DAVID FULLMAN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN NICHOLAS LLOYD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director
  • JUDELINE NICHOLAS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Learning And Development Consultant
  • KAY MASON BILLIG Appointed: 2024
  • LAURA SUSAN MCGILLIVRAY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • MICHAEL JOHN STONARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Councillor
  • SHARON LOUISE WILSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Hr & Od Consultant
  • THOMAS CHARLES CHRISTOPHER SLEIGH (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • TIMOTHY ROBERT SEELEY MR Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Bank Director
  • TOBIAS WILSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Hr & Od Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/05/1971, number: 262259
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/12/1970, number: 00997352
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 09/01/2018, current status: Small charity
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 2 days late, AR04: 26 days late,
Main office

Theatre Royal
Theatre Street
NORWICH
NR2 1RL

Objectives

(a) 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, therefore, provided that nothing contained in this Article 2 and Article 3 shall be deemed to authorise or permit the property of the Company nor the income thereof nor any part of such property or income to be applied or used for any object or purpose which is not exclusively charitable. (b) to receive, educate and train students in drama, dancing, music and other arts and to promote the recognition and encouragement of special merit in students by the institution and presentation of scholarships, exhibitions, grants, medals and other prizes or benefactions.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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