THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 211659 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TRUST, THE SOCIETY OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LIMITED

To encourage, promote and educate the public in the arts of opera and ballet. It achieves this mainly through support of Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation (ROHCGF), its productions and its education and access activities.The ROHF transferred its trade, assets and liabilities to ROHCGF on 31 August 2014. The ROHF has been dormant from that date onwards.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE PROMOTE AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS OF OPERA AND BALLET.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Merged into ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN FOUNDATION (charity 211775) — merger registered 28/10/2015.
Received the assets of THE FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN (charity 211660) — merger registered 15/08/2014.
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Latest income
£23.1m
Latest spending
£24.1m
Registered
1962

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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2014

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2014)

Total income
£23.1m
Total spending
£24.1m
Reserves (reported)
£985k
Employees
31

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Register events

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
25/08/2016——
25/08/2015——
31/08/2014£23.1m£24.1m
25/08/2013£21.1m£21.1m
26/08/2012£18.1m£18.1m