THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL

Registered charity 214364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1455391 · Wikipedia · also known as ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL

To train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers for The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and other top international dance companies.

Objects

THE PRIMARY OBJECT IS TO CONDUCT AND MAINTAIN THE SCHOOL IN ALL RESPECTS AS A CHARITY, AND TO APPLY THE PROPERTY AND INCOME OF THE SCHOOL FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ONLY. FURTHER OBJECTS ARE (I) TO CONDUCT A SCHOOL FOR THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE BALLET, AND FOR PROVIDING SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION FOR SUCH OF THE SAID BOYS AND GIRLS AS ARE BY LAW REQUIRED TO RECEIVE SUCH EDUCATION; (II) TO RECEIVE, EDUCATE AND TRAIN STUDENTS IN BALLET, DRAMA, DANCING, SINGING, MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS. (FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 4 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School incurred a consolidated loss of £3.36m from day-to-day operations, resulting in a total deficit of £2.627m for the year. Free/unrestricted reserves have dropped significantly to £272,000, which the trustees describe as 'very low'. However, the School relies on funding from The Royal Ballet School Endowment Fund to cover interim losses while implementing a strategic plan to achieve financial sustainability by 2029-30.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 05/07/2022, 5 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Kinoshita Group — “Kinoshita Group has been passionately involved in supporting the arts and culture to date. In particular, they have been supporting Japanese…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £11.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (128,147 followers) · instagram (524K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Natasha Kaplinskychair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Adrian George Packer
• Alistair Summers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carlos Acosta CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Anne Davis
• Cordelia Redwood-Sawyerr
• Craig Alan Ranson
• Edward Watson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isabel Mortimer
• Jillian Barker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanna Birkett
• Kevin O'Hare
• Lady Sarah Ann Dorfman
• Mary Breen
• Michael Richard Hussey
• Richard Dennen
• Suzanne Margaret Brennan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Clementi · trustee of 1 other charity

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.

• Carlos Acosta CBE — trustee here and at THE FREDERICK ASHTON FOUNDATION
• Thomas Clementi — trustee here and at ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND

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

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

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 ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND.

• ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND income £627k
• BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET income £19.0m
• BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED income £3.2m
• RAMBERT SCHOOL OF BALLET AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE income £3.5m
• Yorkshire Ballet Seminars income £381k
• 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.