THE OXFORD SCHOOL OF DRAMA TRUST

Registered charity 1072770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The School offers an education, as well as vocational training to students from a wide range of social and educational backgrounds, through its acting courses.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a deficit of £11,771 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total funds of £1,377,864. The Trustees report free reserves of £782,137, which they consider appropriate against a policy target of approximately £600,000 to cover six months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Edward Hicks — School Principal (source)
• John Ward — Head of Acting (source)
• Kirsty McFarland — Head of Movement (source)
• Gemma Maddock — Head of Voice (source)
• Seamus Allen — Head of Foundation (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE MILLMAN
• Ashley Byam
• Cassie Anne Bradley
• Dr Sophie Victoria Duncan
• Francesca Murray-Fuentes
• Graham Upton
• Helen Dance
• Martin Neild
• Olivia Sangster-Bullers
• Simon Stephens

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL LIMITED.

• BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.8m
• WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD income £20.3m
• OCTAGON THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £4.2m
• THE AES TRING PARK SCHOOL TRUST income £11.9m
• ST OLAVE'S SCHOOL TRUST income £3.4m
• OXFORD ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £173k

Side by side with its peers

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