READING REPERTORY THEATRE

Registered charity 1147048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as READING REP

Reading Rep Theatre exists to ensure that everyone in Reading, and especially those with least opportunity, can access high quality theatre and culture. Our mission is to strengthen the communities we serve by making work with, by and for Reading.

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Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.2m
Registered
2012
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only Docusign Envelope IDs and no financial data, narrative, or statements regarding the charity's financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£1.2m
Reserves (reported)
£420k
Employees
10

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£1.2m£1.2m
31/07/2024£895k£956k
31/07/2023£980k£950k
31/07/2022£855k£841k
31/07/2021£693k£499k

Common questions

Is READING REPERTORY THEATRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains only Docusign Envelope IDs and no financial data, narrative, or statements regarding the charity's financial health.

Who funds READING REPERTORY THEATRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name READING REPERTORY THEATRE as a grant recipient include THE LINBURY TRUST, THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE EARLEY CHARITY, BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE LINBURY TRUSTFY2023£50kTowards the Theatre ‘Engage Reborn’ outreach programme. Second and final payment of a two-year £100k grant.
THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£50kLocal Donations
THE LINBURY TRUSTFY2022£50kEngage Reborn and outreach programme.
THE EARLEY CHARITYFY2021£24k
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£1k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund04/07/2024£245kENGAGE: A Creative Hub for Reading
Postcode Lottery30/06/2023£25kProject Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund31/01/2020£200kENGAGE
The National Lottery Heritage Fund19/02/2019£10k"Operation Paddington"
The National Lottery Community Fund06/04/2016£9kENGAGE: Performing Arts for Learners with Learning Difficulties and Di
The National Lottery Community Fund01/10/2014£10kENGAGE: Performing Arts for Female Offenders
The National Lottery Community Fund14/03/2013£4kEmployability in the Community

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
READING REPERTORY THEATRE£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE LIMITED FY2025£15.3m—0unclear—no doubt
PROGRESS THEATRE FY2025£136k—0unclear—no doubt
READING CENTRAL DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL FY2025£1.8m—0unclear—no doubt
The Bull Theatre Ltd FY2025£100k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ROTHERHAM HOSPICE TRUST FY2025£8.4m—0unclear—no doubt

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