NORTHERN BALLET LIMITED

Registered charity 259140 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE LIMITED, NORTHERN DANCE THEATRE LIMITED

Northern Ballet is a classical ballet company which tours for approximately 26 weeks each year to 18 cities within the United Kingdom. Performances are narrative, theatrical and dramatic and are accessible to a diverse range of audiences who would not otherwise see the highest quality of dance. Northern Ballet is also committed to advancing education in the arts through training and workshops.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity delivered a surplus of £1,942,602 for the year, driven by strong box office returns and fundraising income. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,590,605, which is above the stated policy target of £1,323,450, indicating a strong financial position with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Federico Bonelli — Artistic Director (source)
• Leanne Kirkham — Director of Learning and Academy Operations (source)
• Sam Moore — Head of Learning (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).

• Backstage Trust — “Thanks to the generous support of Backstage Trust, Northern Ballet has been able to undertake a critical upgrade of our touring lighting equ…” (source page)
• Charles Brotherton Trust — “Principal Trusts and Foundation Supporters Trusts & Foundations Charles Brotherton Trust” (source page)
• Cockayne Grants for the Arts — “Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Fenton Arts Trust — “The Fenton Arts Trust” (source page)
• The Garrick Charitable Trust — “The Garrick Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Linden Charitable Trust — “The Linden Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Marcia and Andrew Brown Charitable Trust — “The Marcia and Andrew Brown Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Maria Björnson Memorial Fund — “Maria Björnson Memorial Fund” (source page)
• The Maxwell Morrison Family Charitable Trust — “The Maxwell Morrison Family Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Mercers' Company — “The Mercers' Company” (source page)
• R E Chadwick Charitable Trust — “R E Chadwick Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Royal Philharmonic Society: RPS Drummond Lockyer Fund for Dance — “Royal Philharmonic Society: RPS Drummond Lockyer Fund for Dance” (source page)
• The John Horseman Trust — “The John Horseman Trust” (source page)
• The Powell Family Foundation — “The Powell Family Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (45% 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: 11.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Guido Roberto Perricone Mrchair
• Andrew McNaught
• Clive Roland Lloyd · trustee of 4 other charities
• Emma Burrows
• Imogen Knight
• Jessye Parke
• Jolyon Leonard Harrison
• Kate Fisher
• Kyla Mullins
• PHILIP KELLER
• Sir Gregory Doran
• Sonny Hanley
• Steven James McRae

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET.

• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET income £25.4m
• BRITISH BALLET ORGANIZATION LIMITED income £1.1m
• BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET income £17.6m
• NORTHERN BROADSIDES THEATRE COMPANY income £530k
• GWENT BALLET THEATRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• NORTHERN STAGE (THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS) LIMITED income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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