BELGRADE THEATRE TRUST (COVENTRY) LIMITED

Registered charity 219163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Belgrade Theatre is the major arts and cultural facility in Coventry and the only building-based professional producing theatre company in the city. Corey Campbell, as Artistic Director, seeks to restore the Belgrade's reputation as a high quality producing house and to present a broad spectrum of excellent work that will appeal to a wide range of audiences. The Belgrade is highly respected.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity delivered a surplus and holds free reserves of £1,128,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of three months' salary and overhead expenditure (£1.2m). Per the trustees' report, the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Belgrade Theatre Trust (Coventry) Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Laura Elliot — Chief Executive (source)
• Corey Campbell — Artistic Director (source)
• Emma Flatley — Interim Chief Executive (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council England — “Major Core Funders Arts Council England” (source page)
• Foyle Foundation — “2020 Redevelopment Funders (capital) Foyle Foundation” (source page)
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — “Trusts & Foundations (current, revenue) Esmee Fairbairn Foundation” (source page)
• Backstage Trust — “Trusts & Foundations (previous, revenue) Backstage Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £320k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 15.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jonothan Neelandschair
• Anjula Thiru · trustee of 1 other charity
• Annette Hay · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clement Tyrone Huggins
• Colin Bell
• Elizabeth Flavell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harinderjit Banga
• Jacqueline Anne Clements
• Karamjit Sukhminder Singh
• Paula Deas
• Rebecca Lynda Warwick
• Robin Heer
• Rosalyn Forbes
• Thanh Giang Sinden
• Tony Skipper

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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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 LEICESTER THEATRE TRUST LIMITED.

• LEICESTER THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £18.5m
• THEATRE@41 LTD income £101k
• COVENTRY BIENNIAL LTD income £214k
• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
• WAKEFIELD THEATRE TRUST income £2.4m
• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m

Side by side with its peers

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