THE ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND

Registered charity 222080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Financial and other assistance to those within the entertainment media (and their dependants)who cannot practise their craft through illness, adversity or infirmity

Objects

THE RELIEF OF ANY PERSON IN NEED WHO HAS PROFESSIONALLY PRACTISED OR CONTRIBUTED TO THE THEATRICAL ARTS (ON STAGE RADIO FILMS OR TELEVISION OR ANY OTHER MEDIUM BY WHICH SUCH ARTS MAY BE PRESENTED IN THE FUTURE) AND THE RELIEF OF THE FAMILIES OR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NEED OF RELIEF OR SUCH PERSONS OR SUCH DECEASED PERSONS.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, 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 £61,054 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Despite this deficit, the charity holds substantial free unrestricted reserves of £9,433,116, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet current and future charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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)

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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 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Royal Theatrical Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SAMANTHA BONDchair
• Amanda Redman MBE
• DAVID MICHAELS
• Dr Paulette Randall MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• GILES WATLING
• Genevieve Allenbury · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ginny Holder
• JANIE DEE
• LEE DEAN
• MR Richard Clifford · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Polycarpou
• ROBERT LINDSAY
• Rebecca Crankshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Noble · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sam Hunter
• Samantha Spiro
• Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bt · trustee of 4 other charities

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.

• Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bt — trustee here and at ACTING FOR OTHERS

Known funders

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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 THEATRICAL SUPPORT TRUST.

• THE ROYAL THEATRICAL SUPPORT TRUST income £82k
• THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND income £4.3m
• THE FILM AND TELEVISION CHARITY income £2.7m
• TADS THEATRE GROUP income £32k
• THEATRE ROYAL (PLYMOUTH) LIMITED income £23.4m
• THE M.A.T.A. REGAL THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £224k

Side by side with its peers

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