THEATRE ROYAL (NORWICH) TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 262259 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL

Regional theatre

Objects

(a) to promote, maintain, improve and advance education, particularly by the production of educational plays and the encouragement of the arts, including the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music and to formulate, prepare and establish schemes, therefore, provided that nothing contained in this Article 2 and Article 3 shall be deemed to authorise or permit the property of the Company nor the income thereof nor any part of such property or income to be applied or used for any object or purpose which is not exclusively charitable. (b) to receive, educate and train students in drama, dancing, music and other arts and to promote the recognition and encouragement of special merit in students by the institution and presentation of scholarships, exhibitions, grants, medals and other prizes or benefactions.

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.

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Registered contact address: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £20.2m, slightly up from £19.1m in the prior year, while total expenditure remained flat at £20.2m, resulting in a net deficit. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4.3m, though the trustees calculate free reserves as nil due to significant fixed asset values, a position they consider acceptable given strong cash balances and deferred income liabilities.

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.

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
• 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.

In the news

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• Spotlight on…NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL westendbestfriend.co.uk · 21/09/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00997352
• Trading subsidiary: THEATRE ROYAL (NORWICH) SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 01052539

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Norwich Theatre Royal (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stephen Crocker — Chief Executive & Creative Director (source)
• Tom Sleigh — Chair of Trustees (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.

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.

• GALVIN, Lucy Frances, Cllr — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• CARTER, Robert Edward Russell — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• COWEN, James Frederick Huxley — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• RAVAL, Vivek — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• SAUL, Edmund Michael Iliff — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• HARRINGTON, Oliver Reuben Joel — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• MASON BILLIG, Kay — director, appointed 28/03/2024not on trustee list
• SLEIGH, Thomas Charles Christopher — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• MUDEKA, Anna Hamunyare — director, appointed 29/11/2022on trustee list
• NICHOLAS, Judeline Glynis — director, appointed 29/11/2022on trustee list
• MCGILLIVRAY, Laura Susan — director, appointed 09/06/2020on trustee list
• LLOYD, John Nicholas — director, appointed 28/01/2019on trustee list
• WINTON, Rebecca — secretary, appointed 20/07/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (52,578 followers) · instagram (32K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Charles Christopher Sleighchair
• Anna Mudeka · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edmund Saul
• James Cowen
• John Nicholas Lloyd
• Judeline Nicholas
• Kay Mason Billig
• Laura Susan McGillivray
• Lucy Frances Galvin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver Reuben Joel Harrington
• Robert Edward Russell Carter
• Vivek Raval

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYALTY THEATRE SUNDERLAND.

• ROYALTY THEATRE SUNDERLAND income £82k
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Side by side with its peers

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