THE ENGLISH STAGE COMPANY LIMITED

Registered charity 231242 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL COURT THEATRE

English Stage Company is a leading force in world theatre, finding, developing and producing new plays. An artistically led theatre, we create the conditions for writers nationally and internationally to flourish and through a strategic programme of education and outreach work, to engage with the widest audience across all ages and communities, promoting understanding and enjoyment of the arts.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OR ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS IN THE THEATRE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text is limited to the independent auditors' report and does not contain financial statements or narrative sections detailing the charity's financial health, reserves, or operational performance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 06/03/2025, 34 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 29/03/2023, 57 days 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY CHARLES BURTON CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW CHARLES JAMES RODGER · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANITA SCOTT
• Dame Vikki Heywood
• JENNETTE ARNOLD OBE
• Jodi Myers
• LORD STEWART WOOD
• Mark Ravenhill
• Mwenya Kawesha
• Neal Ghandi
• Pamela Jikiemi

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COMPANY.

• THE COMPANY income £63k
• THE COMPANY PRESENTS LIMITED income £36k
• EXETER LITTLE THEATRE COMPANY income £103k
• STAGE 2 YOUTH THEATRE COMPANY income £178k
• ACTORS TOURING COMPANY (LONDON) LIMITED income £539k
• ARDENT THEATRE COMPANY income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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