THE KINGS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1088254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To refurbish, restore and to operate the King's Theatre, Southsea as a venue for professional and amateur organisations. To educate and entertain all groups regardless of age, gender or religion.

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, RESTITUTION, PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE KINGS THEATRE, SOUTHSEA, HAMPSHIRE; PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN ARTS; AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS

Area of benefit: THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE KINGS THEATRE.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a consolidated surplus of £2,179,196 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted and designated reserves of £4,414,888. The trustees confirm that these reserves are in excess of the stated policy target of £0.5m and are confident the level will be maintained. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the entity'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 MC Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Kings Theatre Portsmouth (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Pearce — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jack Edwards — Deputy CEO (source)
• Damon Repton — Chair (source)
• Rebecca Henderson — Director of People and Operations (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Damon Trevor Reptonchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• DAVID TERENCE GANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Hugh Laurence Mason
• GARETH JAMES MORGAN
• Graeme Brian Quar
• MR RON HASKER
• Marie Ogugua Costa
• Robert Andrew Charles Peck
• jane prescott · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m
• MALVERN THEATRES TRUST LIMITED income £7.1m
• THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL-TRUSTEES (PORTSMOUTH) LIMITED income £1.4m
• KINGSTON THEATRE TRUST income £3.9m
• THE THEATRE ROYAL BATH LIMITED income £19.7m
• SOUTH LONDON THEATRE CENTRE LIMITED income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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