Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Future income +5
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUND 

Providing leadership and strategic thinking, The Theatres Trust advises in planning, regeneration and development, architecture and design, heritage, and theatre. We enable better planning to secure, improve and achieve sustainability for new and existing theatre buildings and protect theatre use. The Theatres Trust also provides financial assistance for theatres through grants.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£1,176£1,110£66£92£1,105£1,03911.2101
31/03/22£1,044£1,012£32£76£1,187£1,08812.991
31/03/21£1,006£1,181£-175£73£1,102£99010.191
31/03/20£1,094£1,089£5£125£1,083£8899.8101
31/03/19£1,030£956£75£194£1,155£1,01412.7102
31/03/18£918£914£4£100£1,032£94512.490
31/03/17£971£908£64£123£1,038£95212.680
31/03/16£807£762£45£112£975£83013.180
31/03/15£712£658£55£154£979£89416.370
31/03/14£681£637£44£151£874£78914.970
31/03/13£746£750£-4£164£808£69111.180
31/03/12£767£655£113£128£754£60411.180
31/03/11£621£673£-51£122£641£62311.180
31/03/10£553£562£-8£94£657£6571490
31/03/09£486£495£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£518£530£-13£204£697£69715.870
31/03/07?£307£358£-51£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/06£460£451£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/05£458£422£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/04£335£383£-49£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 11.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 46 years

www.theatrestrust.org.uk

info@theatrestrust.org.uk

07540913915

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 10 employees
  • 1 volunteer

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
Wolfson Foundation£900,000
The Linbury Trust£75,000
DCMS£49,581
The Foyle Foundation£40,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£33,000
The Pilgrim Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Theatres Trust
£525,000 06/12/2023
Renewal of joint programme to fund theatre repairs over three years (2024-26)
The Linbury Trust - Increased grants prog budget - Theatres Trust
£75,000 05/10/2023
To increase the budget available for the grants programme, supporting resilience of local theatres.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Statutory Casework - Theatres Trust
£3,750 25/02/2022
Statutory casework- Responding to Listed Building Consent or similar notifications, providing pre-application planning advice- Providing professional advice to conservation officers, LPAs and other ....more
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Statutory Casework - Theatres Trust
£15,606 25/02/2022
To promote the protection ad conservation of historic theatres through exercising the trusts role as statutory consultee in the planning system.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Theatres Trust
£375,000 09/12/2020
36
Renewal of joint programme to fund theatre repairs over three years
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£40,000 30/09/2020
towards the Theatres Protection Re-Opening and Reviving Fund supporting small to medium-scale theatres with the costs necessary to open safely (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Theatres Trust
£30,000 25/09/2020
12
Theatres Protection Re-Opening Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£33,000 17/07/2020
Theatres Trust Covid-19 Response Programme
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Statutory Casework: Theatres Trust
£11,475 01/04/2020
To promote the protection ad conservation of historic theatres through exercising the trusts role as statutory consultee in the planning system.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-National Building Capacity: Theatres at Risk Capacity Building Programme
£18,750 01/04/2020
Theatres Trust is the national advisory body for theatres. We campaign to save theatres on our Theatres at Risk Register.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-National Building Capacity: Theatres at Risk Capacity Building Programme
£6,250 01/04/2019
Theatres Trust is the national advisory body for theatres. We campaign to save theatres on our Theatres at Risk Register.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Statutory Casework: Theatres Trust
£18,825 01/04/2019
To promote the protection ad conservation of historic theatres through exercising the trusts role as statutory consultee in the planning system.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Pilot Capacity Building Initiative for Theatres Most at Risk in England- Theatres Trust
£25,000 01/04/2019
This Capacity Building Initiative will work with historic theatres greatest at risk, and under threat, across England. It will increase capacity, operation and development and empower the voluntary ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Theatres Trust
£60,000 13/02/2019
36
Theatres at Risk Capacity Building Programme; Securing the future of the most At Risk theatres in the UK
DCMS - ALB-HistoricEngland-Statutory Casework: Theatres Trust
£16,194 01/04/2018
To promote the protection and conservation of historic theatres through exercising the trusts role as statutory consultee in the planning system.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Theatres Trust
£315,000 04/12/2017
36
Joint programme to fund theatre repairs for three years
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Theatres Trust
£90,100 27/06/2017
36
The UK Small Grants Scheme (UKSGS)
DCMS - National Capacity Building Grants
£22,500 21/03/2017
To promote the protection and conservation of this through excercising the trust as a consultee in the planning system
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Theatres Trust
£105,000 16/06/2016
Joint programme to fund urgent theatre repairs and equipment for a pilot year
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Theatres Trust
£125,000 24/01/2012
Theatres Protection Fund
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/1977, number: 274697
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

22 CHARING CROSS ROAD
LONDON
WC2H 0QL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF GENERAL EDUCATION IN RELATION OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE DRAMATIC ARTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF SUCH ARTS, PARTICULARLY BY PROMOTING THE MAINTENANCE USE AND BETTER PROTECTION OF THEATRES AND PLACES OF ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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