REGENT'S PARK THEATRE LIMITED

Registered charity 231670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NSC, THE NEW SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LIMITED, THE OPEN AIR THEATRE REGENT'S PARK

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is the oldest professional, permanent outdoor theatre in the UK. Its principal activity is the production and presentation of plays, musicals, and other live performance, primarily through its summer season in Regent's Park. The charity also delivers year round talent development and education programmes, and produces theatre elsewhere in the UK and internationally.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ARTS AND CULTURE PRIMARILY IN THE THEATRICAL ARTS BUT INCLUDING ANY OTHER MEDIA, AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAT IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURSUANT TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

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.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · 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 total incoming resources decreased by 4% to £8,665,030, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The charity holds free reserves of £1,924,747, which is above its stated target of £1,455,286 for the following year. The Trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stuart Griffiths OBE — Chair of the Board (source)
• Drew McOnie — Joint Chief Executive / Artistic Director (source)
• James Pidgeon — Joint Chief Executive / Executive 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Andor Charitable Trust — “TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS We are hugely grateful to the Trusts and Foundations who have supported our recent projects, including those who wish…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Katrin Fleischle-Marriott
• Charlotte Aherne
• Dame Susan Ruth Street
• Heather Deanna Clark Charrington
• Jaya Carrier
• Kate Millward
• Partha Bose
• Philippa Helen Boudica Simpson
• ROBERT GLICK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steve Pennington · trustee of 1 other charity
• TONI ROCHELLE RACKLIN
• Tyrone William Wray Huntley

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 NATIONAL THEATRE.

• THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE income £128.7m
• REGENT'S PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL CHARITABLE FUND income £138k
• THE PARK THEATRE income £2.9m
• STOKE-ON-TRENT REPERTORY THEATRE LIMITED income £230k
• THE GREENWICH THEATRE LIMITED income £1.7m
• Regents Opera Ltd income £696k

Side by side with its peers

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