SHEFFIELD THEATRES CRUCIBLE TRUST

Registered charity 1120640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sheffield Theatres Crucible Trust is a subsidiary of Sheffield Theatres Trust, a complex of 3 theatre spaces. Sheffield Theatres Crucible Theatre Trust specifically accounts for all self produced, tours, transfers and guest productions for the Crucible venues and the building's premises costs, as well as delivering an extensive programme of work in schools and communities

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus on unrestricted funds of £209,926 for the period ended 31 March 2025. The trustees confirm that income and cash flow forecasts indicate the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Total net assets increased to £6,267,414, with unrestricted reserves standing at £1,102,266.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06035820

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tom Bird — Chief Executive (source)
• Elizabeth Newman — Artistic Director (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.

• LANG, Eleanor Jean — director, appointed 21/11/2025on trustee list
• FINCH, Anni Margaret — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• BOOTH, Kate Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• PAKENHAM, Catherine Ruth — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• HUNTRODS, Richard Stuart — director, appointed 27/09/2017on trustee list
• NOBLE, Robert Frederick Strang — director, appointed 15/12/2010not on trustee list
• ADLEMAN, Neil — director, appointed 21/12/2006on trustee list
• BYAM SHAW, Matthew James — director, appointed 21/12/2006not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% 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

• Catherine Ruth Pakenham
• Dr Anni Margaret Finch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eleanor Lang · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Elizabeth Booth
• MATTHEW JAMES BYAM SHAW
• NEIL ADLEMAN · trustee of 3 other charities
• Richard Huntrods
• Robert Noble OBE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD THEATRE TRUST.

• THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD THEATRE TRUST income £6.0m
• SHEFFIELD THEATRES TRUST income £12.8m
• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• THE THEATRES TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £1.4m
• LIVERPOOL AND MERSEYSIDE THEATRES TRUST LIMITED income £6.7m
• SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST income £420k

Side by side with its peers

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