Yorkshire Ballet Seminars

Registered charity 1107179 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORKSHIRE BALLET SEMINARS CHARITABLE TRUST, YORKSHIRE BALLET SUMMER SCHOOL

ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF PROMOTING AND FURTHERING PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF DANCE AND RELATED PERFORMING ARTS PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MEANS OF UNDERTAKING, PROVIDING, MAINTAINING, DEVELOPING AND SUPPORTING TRAINING, EDUCATIONAL COURSES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, LESSONS AND CLASSES FOR THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND PROMOTION OF BALLET AND OTHER FORMS OF DANCE

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND FURTHERANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF DANCE AND RELATED PERFORMING ARTS PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCESSIVELY BY MEANS OF UNDERTAKING, PROVIDING, MAINTAINING, DEVELOPING AND SUPPORTING TRAINING, EDUCATIONAL COURSES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, LESSONS AND CLASSES FOR THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND PROMOTION OF BALLET AND OTHER FORMS OF DANCE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£381k

Latest spending

£439k

Registered

2004

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £59,451 for the year, resulting in total funds dropping to £290,240. This level of unrestricted reserves is explicitly noted as being below the charity's stated policy target of holding twelve months' expenditure. Despite this drop, the trustees consider it appropriate to continue adopting the going concern basis, citing sufficient resources to finance activities over the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £285k)

“This has dropped to below the charity's reserves policy of holding the equivalent of 12 month's expenditure in general reserves.” — page 15

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Anna Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
CHARLES GLANVILLE · trustee of 1 other charity
Charles Herbert Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
David Pickering
Imogen Knight · trustee of 1 other charity
Joanna McDwyer
Justine Stephenson
Simone Goligorsky

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/10/2025	£381k	£439k
31/10/2024	£441k	£395k
31/10/2023	£322k	£309k
31/10/2022	£312k	£305k
31/10/2021	£197k	£233k

Common questions

Is Yorkshire Ballet Seminars financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £59,451 for the year, resulting in total funds dropping to £290,240. This level of unrestricted reserves is explicitly noted as being below the charity's stated policy target of holding twelve months' expenditure. Despite this drop, the trustees consider it appropriate to continue adopting the going concern basis, citing sufficient resources to finance activities over the next 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Yorkshire Ballet Seminars?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Yorkshire Ballet Seminars as a grant recipient include THE BAND TRUST, CHK Foundation.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BAND TRUST	FY2023	£34k	Children and Young People
THE BAND TRUST	FY2022	£20k	Specific grantee
CHK Foundation	FY2024	£10k
CHK Foundation	FY2023	£10k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	2	£55k
HAYS TRAVEL FOUNDATION	2	£11k
THE LINBURY TRUST	1	£100k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	1	£90k
THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£60k
LEEDS CULTURE TRUST	1	£21k
The Keith Howard Foundation	1	£20k
The Ashley Family Foundation	1	£17k

Charities like this

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

BALLET LORENT LIMITED income £817k
BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED income £3.2m
RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED income £5.1m
YORKE DANCE PROJECT income £221k
DORCHESTER BALLET AND DANCE CLUB income £71k
THE YORKSHIRE DANCE CENTRE TRUST income £840k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Yorkshire Ballet Seminars	£381k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
BALLET LORENT LIMITED FY2025	£817k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED FY2025	£3.2m	£110,001 - £120,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£5.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YORKE DANCE PROJECT FY2025	£221k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DORCHESTER BALLET AND DANCE CLUB FY2025	£71k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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