ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 211775 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, ROH2, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN LIMITED, THE ROYAL BALLET, THE ROYAL OPERA

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general funds were £4.1m at the period end, equating to only 3% of current unrestricted incoming resources, which the Trustees note is below their target level of £10m. The charity reported a net expenditure on unrestricted funds of £4.3m for the year, driven by significant capital investment and inflationary pressures, though it maintains substantial cash reserves of £108.8m. The Trustees confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months, despite facing ongoing challenges from inflation and the need for substantial future building investment.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 25/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Alan Stanton
• Alistair Summers
• Baroness Deborah Bull
• Caroline Louise Britton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dame Carolyn McCall
• Daniel Ison
• Farah Golant
• Janis Elizabeth Susskind · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanna Streeten
• Lisa Jane Burger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lord John Browne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philipp Freise
• SIR NICHOLAS HYTNER
• Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE
• Stephen Lucas
• TIMOTHY BRIAN BUNTING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zeinab Badawi-Malik

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Caroline Louise Britton — trustee here and at THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND 2000
• TIMOTHY BRIAN BUNTING — trustee here and at THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND 2000

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND 2000.

• THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND 2000 income £4.1m
• THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE BENEVOLENT FUND income £132k
• ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND income £627k
• CANTIACORUM FOUNDATION income £155k
• THE FREDERICK ASHTON FOUNDATION income £535k
• OPERA NORTH FUTURE FUND income £121k