THE OLD VIC THEATRE TRUST 2000

Registered charity 1072590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operation and preservation of The Old Vic Theatre; education and community programmes.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, MUSIC, BALLET, OPERA, PUPPETRY, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY,CINEMA, LITERATURE AND POETRY AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR.

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: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves increased to £37.0m, with £4.0m held in unrestricted operational reserves. The charity reports a net surplus of £5.9m for the year, driven by strong ticket and commercial income, and confirms sufficient resources to remain financially viable for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 10 (FY2024) → 17 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Investment
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 02/07/2026, 2 days after the 30/06/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03667822
• Trading subsidiary: THE OLD VIC THEATRE COMPANY (THE CUT) LIMITED Companies House 04725562
• Trading subsidiary: THE OLD VIC SERVICES COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 06753149 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Old Vic (matched by registered charity number).

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 — “The Old Vic gratefully acknowledges support through the Culture Recovery Fund from Arts Council England” (source page)
• Royal Bank of Canada — “Principal Partner since 2015.” (source page)
• Bloomberg Philanthropies — “Tomorrow at The Old Vic Supporters Bloomberg Philanthropies” (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.

• STENNING, Emma — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• BRODIE, Imogen Kate — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• WARSHAW, Simon David — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• DAVIES, Helen Louise — director, appointed 22/05/2023not on trustee list
• JENKINS, John Huw Gwili — director, appointed 21/09/2021on trustee list
• HENDERSON, David Norman — director, appointed 23/02/2021on trustee list
• GOPALAN, Geeta — director, appointed 10/02/2021on trustee list
• COOPER, Pavita — director, appointed 21/01/2021on trustee list
• JOHN, Peter Charles — director, appointed 21/01/2021on trustee list
• ATIM, Sheila — director, appointed 28/03/2019on trustee list
• ALEXANDROU, Tina — director, appointed 28/03/2019on trustee list
• HEATH, Laura Frances — secretary, appointed 13/10/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: The Old Vic scores 4.0/5 from 5 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (151,140 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon David Warshawchair
• DAVID NORMAN HENDERSON
• Emma Stenning
• GEETA GOPALAN
• Helen Davies KC
• Imogen Brodie
• John Huw Gwili Jenkins
• Pavita Cooper · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Charles John · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheila Atim
• TINA ALEXANDROU

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

Operates in: Lambeth

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Peter Charles John — trustee here and at THE OLD VIC ENDOWMENT TRUST

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OLD VIC ENDOWMENT TRUST.

• THE OLD VIC ENDOWMENT TRUST income £106k
• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m
• WICKHAM THEATRE TRUST income £44k
• THEATRE-RITES income £278k
• OLD VICARAGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £375k
• THEATRE ROYAL (NORWICH) TRUST LIMITED income £20.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.