ROYAL COURT LIVERPOOL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1129007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Royal Court Liverpool Trust was formed in 2008 to safeguard the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool and to engage the local community with the rich heritage of the building and to celebrate its place in the cultural life of the city.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £430,893 for the year, driven largely by a £270,861 write-off of development costs for the halted Sir Ken Dodd Happiness Centre project. Per the trustees' report, free reserves decreased to £216,331, which remains above the stated minimum reserves policy target of £60,000. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to meet obligations for at least twelve months with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSG Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05988546

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.

• SUMMERS, Heather Elizabeth — director, appointed 31/03/2015on trustee list
• FALKINGHAM, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 21/05/2008on trustee list
• MILLER, Gillian Isobel — secretary, appointed 16/06/2015

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £900k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Heather Summers
• JONATHAN MARK FALKINGHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Edward Dunn

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL COURT LIVERPOOL LTD.

• ROYAL COURT LIVERPOOL LTD income £7.1m
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Side by side with its peers

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