NATIONAL YOUTH BALLET OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 1000932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL YOUTH BALLET, YOUTH BALLET WORKSHOP

The Charity's activities include the creation, production and performance of ballets for young people with the purposeof involving them in all aspects of a production including choreography, music, costumes, props and stagemake-up. Teaching and rehearsals for the main company takes place over several months, including a residential summer school, and culminates performances at major theatres.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS INCLUDING DANCING, MIME, MUSIC, DRAMA, OPERATIC ART, THE VISUAL ARTS, LITERATURE, POETRY AND OF THE CRAFTS OF THEATRICAL DESIGN LIGHTING AND STAGE CRAFT AND TO EXTEND AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF YOUNG DANCERS IN BALLET AND TO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF BARNARDO'S (OR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS)

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £16,775 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven largely by unexpected income from a Theatre Tax Relief claim. At year-end, the charity held unrestricted free reserves of £96,005, significantly exceeding its stated policy target of a minimum £25,000. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02557811

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England” (source page)
• Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement” (source page)
• Big Give Arts for Impact — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact” (source page)
• Cockayne Grants for the Arts — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• The Prism Charitable Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• Idlewild Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• International Music and Art Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• The Legat Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• The Linbury Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• The LHR Charitable Foundation — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• Maria Björnson Memorial Fund — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)
• The W E Dunn Charitable Trust — “Trusts and foundations Arts Council England Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement Big Give Arts for Impact Cockayne Grants for the Arts…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HENRY-CRAWFORD, Sasha Monique — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• HAYASHI, Clint Masao — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• LALWANI, Kamal Bhag — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• DIXON, Ashley James — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
• RYDE, Rosemary Anne — director, appointed 15/08/2022on trustee list
• CASTANHA LLOYD, Patricia Jaques Bogue — director, appointed 15/01/2018not on trustee list
• JACKSON, Paul — director, appointed 25/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Patricia Castanha Lloydchair
• Ashley Dixon
• Clint Hayashi
• Kamal Lalwani
• Paul Jackson
• Rosemary Ryde
• Sasha Henry-Crawford

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET.

• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET income £25.4m
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN income £4.0m
• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.6m
• NATIONAL YOUTH ARTS TRUST income £262k
• GWENT BALLET THEATRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE income £834k

Side by side with its peers

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