ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET

Registered charity 214005 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1342859 · Wikipedia · also known as ENB, ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET ENTERPRISES LTD, ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET LIMITED, ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET LTD

The primary objective of the Charity remains to present productions of classical ballet of the highest quality within England and around the world, with particular emphasis on access to these performances to the widest possible audience through affordable pricing, touring to different venues in England and attractive repertoire.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER EDUCATION IN AND KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS OF BALLET, OPERA, MIME, DRAMA, MUSIC, AND SINGING AND SIMILAR AND ANCILLARY ARTS.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £153,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by higher expenditure on new works and performance costs. Unrestricted general reserves stood at £3,606,000, which the trustees confirmed was within their stated policy target range of £3.2m to £3.7m. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis 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 Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — English National Ballet (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Rupert Gavin — Chair (source)
• Anu Giri — Executive Director (source)
• Aaron S. Watkin — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £5.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (401,614 followers) · instagram (428K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (44% 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: 3.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Alexander Rupert Gavinchair
• Alexander Humphreys
• Brenda Newton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Alan Marks
• Harriet Elizabeth Finney
• Lady Deborah Buffini · trustee of 1 other charity
• Orlene Onika Badu
• Rachel Katrina Eccleston
• Sally ElizAbeth Anne Rushton
• Sanaz Fatemeh Amidi
• Sandra Janet Honess

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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.

• LADY BUFFINI — trustee here and at THE BUFFINI CHAO FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 NATIONAL YOUTH BALLET OF GREAT BRITAIN.

• NATIONAL YOUTH BALLET OF GREAT BRITAIN income £332k
• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.6m
• ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA income £26.9m
• BALLET BLACK income £1.1m
• BALLET LORENT LIMITED income £817k
• RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED income £5.1m

Side by side with its peers

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