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.

Objects

1.1 TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND BALLETS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC. 1.2 TO PRESENT, PRODUCE, MANAGE, CONDUCT, PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND PROVIDE SUCH PLAYS, BALLETS, DRAMAS, OPERAS, OPERETTAS, BURLESQUES, PUPPET SHOWS, FILMS, BROADCASTS, CONCERTS, MUSICAL PIECES, ENTERTAINMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS AS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE PROMOTION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OR TO THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS. 1.3 TO ADVANCE THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE BY CO-OPERATING WITH CHARITIES CONDUCTING SUCH PURPOSES IN ORDER TO PROMOTE, DEVELOP AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF SUCH PLAYS, BALLETS, DRAMAS, OPERAS, OPERETTAS, BURLESQUES, PUPPET SHOWS, FILMS, BROADCASTS, CONCERTS, MUSICAL PIECES, ENTERTAINMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS CARRIED OUT BY THOSE CHARITIES. 1.4 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF A PUBLIC AMENITY.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00947096
• Trading subsidiary: NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE COMPANY (PROPERTY) LIMITED Companies House 02466786
• Trading subsidiary: INFO DISPLAY LIMITED Companies House 04392827
• Trading subsidiary: NORTHERN BALLET PRODUCTIONS LIMITED Companies House 09202205

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)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MCRAE, Steven James — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• BURROWS, Emma Gwendoline — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• DORAN, Gregory, Sir — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• KNIGHT, Imogen Frances — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• PARKE, Jessye — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• FISHER, Kate — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• MCNAUGHT, Andrew Robert — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• PERRICONE, Guido Roberto, Mr. — director, appointed 16/09/2022on trustee list
• HANLEY, Sonny — director, appointed 12/07/2021on trustee list
• MULLINS, Kyla Lynne Anthea — director, appointed 18/03/2020on trustee list
• LLOYD, Clive Roland — director, appointed 28/03/2019on trustee list
• HARRISON, Jolyon — director, appointed 14/12/2018on trustee list
• KELLER, Philip Henry — director, appointed 19/10/2018on trustee list
• BRADFORD, Ameena Subhat — secretary, appointed 17/07/2023

Official officers record.

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 (3.7%) (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 · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHERN DANCE.

• NORTHERN DANCE income £87k
• NATIONAL YOUTH BALLET OF GREAT BRITAIN income £332k
• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET income £25.4m
• BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET income £19.0m
• BRECON FESTIVAL BALLET income £115k
• THE NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE income £834k

Side by side with its peers

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