THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 1121284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

City of Sheffield Theatre Trust is a subsidiary of Sheffield Theatres Trust, a complex of 3 theatre spaces. City of Sheffield Theatre Trust accounts specifically for the touring guest productions and hires received by the Lyceum theatre and for its premises costs.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of unrestricted funds of £219,469 for the period ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £543,331. The trustees confirmed that income and cash flow forecasts indicate the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 06308382

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.

• GARNETT, James Michael — director, appointed 13/05/2021on trustee list
• LANG, Eleanor Jean — director, appointed 13/05/2021on trustee list
• MAJOR, Kirsten Amanda — director, appointed 13/05/2021on trustee list
• SINGH, Arun Thomas — director, appointed 22/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 ~1.6 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 (96% 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

• Neil Andrew MacDonaldchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arun Thomas Singh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eleanor Jean Lang · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Michael Garnett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kirsten Amanda Major · trustee of 1 other charity

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 SHEFFIELD THEATRES TRUST.

• SHEFFIELD THEATRES TRUST income £12.8m
• SHEFFIELD THEATRES CRUCIBLE TRUST income £4.7m
• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST income £420k
• SHEFFIELD CITY TRUST income £34.3m
• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m

Side by side with its peers

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