THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 1082472 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide grants to Guildhall School of Music & Drama to advance the education of students and prospective students of the School in music, drama & production arts and any other object considered to be beneficial to the promotion of music, drama & production arts. To support any charitable purpose in which Guildhall School or any student may engage and promotes music, drama & production arts.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,428,353, driven by a surplus of £1,081,426 and unrealised investment gains of £346,927. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £627,126, which is above the stated policy target range of £350,000. The charity holds significant endowment and restricted reserves, with total net assets of £15,920,872.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04041975

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Guildhall School of Music and Drama (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Orla O'Loughlin — Vice-Principal & Director of Drama (source)
• Professor Julian Philips — Head of Department (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.

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.

• DOVE-CLARK, Michelle Afua — director, appointed 11/01/2026on trustee list
• LI-YAN-HUI, Xiao Rong — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• GREEN, Matthew David — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• HARTNETT, Gina — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• MIEZITIS, Julian Charles — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• SHARMA, Gunjan — director, appointed 02/01/2025on trustee list
• WARREN, Christopher James — director, appointed 02/12/2024on trustee list
• BENN, Emily Sophie Wedgwood, The Hon — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• STOCKMANN, Caroline Anne — director, appointed 03/04/2023on trustee list
• NOEL, Philip Arthur Nicholas — director, appointed 25/07/2022on trustee list
• VAUGHAN, Jonathan Andrew, Professor — director, appointed 25/08/2021on trustee list
• HUO, Rongrong — director, appointed 09/03/2021on trustee list
• LAIDLAW, Gillian Mary — director, appointed 03/03/2020on trustee list
• CONSTABLE, Neil Ernest Alexander — director, appointed 03/03/2020on trustee list
• DAVIS, Rachel — secretary, appointed 12/12/2018

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Stockmannchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher James Warren
• Emily Benn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Mary Laidlaw
• Gina Hartnett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gunjan Sharma
• Julian Charles Miezitis
• Matthew David Green
• Michelle Dove-Clark
• Neil Ernest Alexander Constable
• Philip Noel
• Professor Jonathan Andrew Vaughan
• Rongrong Huo
• Xiao Rong Li-Yan-Hui

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED.

• SADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED income £43.3m
• THE TILLETT TRUST income £241k
• HENRY WOOD ACCOMMODATION TRUST income £155k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE ACADEMY OF MUSIC LIMITED income £652k
• THE HALL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £12.7m
• MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS LIMITED income £9.0m

Side by side with its peers

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