SHAKESPEARE NORTH TRUST
Registered charity 1120641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £494,827 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted net liabilities of £757,784. The trustees have adopted the going concern basis, citing committed financial support from Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Arts Council England, despite the auditor highlighting a material uncertainty related to this reliance on external funding.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“We draw attention to note 1.4 headed going concern in the financial statements, which indicates that the charity has made a deficit for the year, which has resulted in a net liability position. As stated in note 1.4 and the Trustees report, these events or conditions, along with other matters as set forth in note 1.4, indicate that the Charity has relied upon funding and support from external organizations in reaching their going concern conclusion.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Lisa — CEO & Creative Director (source)
- Claire — Executive 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.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£150k
Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Ashley Morgan
- CHRISTOPHER BROWN
- Coral Cameron
- Ian James McCarthy
- Jon Anthony Corner
- Kathryn Anne Tipton-Thomas
- Max Laurence Steinberg CBE
- Michael Salla
- Natalie Ann Gilmore
- Peter Malcolm Mearns · trustee of 1 other charity
- Remi Adam Adefeyisan
- Sheena Helen Wrigley
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Knowsley
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SHAKESPEARE NORTH TRUST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £494,827 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted net liabilities of £757,784. The trustees have adopted the going concern basis, citing committed financial support from Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Arts Council England, despite the auditor highlighting a material uncertainty related to this reliance on external funding. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited.
Who funds SHAKESPEARE NORTH TRUST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SHAKESPEARE NORTH TRUST as a grant recipient include THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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