THE SHAKESPEARE GLOBE TRUST

Registered charity 266916 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q58988113 · also known as SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE

The Trust's primary purpose is to promote, maintain, improve and advance education, by encouraging and stimulating public appreciation and understanding of the dramatic art in all its forms, but principally in relation to the works of William Shakespeare. The Trust aims to fulfil this purpose through educational programmes, theatre performances, exhibitiona and guided tours at the Globe Theatre.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY ENCOURAGING AND STIMULATING PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE DRAMATIC ART IN ALL ITS FORMS AND GENERALLY TO CULTIVATE AND IMPROVE PUBLIC TASTE IN SUCH ART AS A MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (SEE MEMORANDUM FOR FURTHER DETAILS).

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: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £3,770k for the year, increasing total net assets to £43,099k. However, the Trustees note that free reserves of £6,103k were below their stated policy benchmark of circa £7,000k, which represents three months of normal expenditure. The charity remains dependent on Theatre Tax Relief and fundraising to sustain its operations amid ongoing inflationary pressures.

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
• 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)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• An American Rebuilt Shakespeare’s Globe and He Died Before It Opened worldatlas.com · 29/06/2026
• Shakespeare's Globe: A Visitor Guide britishtheatre.com · 12/11/2025
• Shakespeare's Globe stages a comeback after pandemic years cityam.com · 09/05/2024
• ‘We’re enormously proud’: Teesside actor performs at Shakespeare’s Globe gazettelive.co.uk · 14/07/2021
• Globe Theatre History | 20 Fascinating Facts About Shakespeare's Globe timeout.com · 24/08/2018
• Emma Rice Will Bow Out as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe (Published 2016) nytimes.com · 25/10/2016
• In rehearsal: Imogen at Shakespeare’s Globe officiallondontheatre.com · 12/09/2016

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stella Kanu — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Michelle Terry — Artistic Director (source)
• Tonye Vianana — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Lotte Buchan — Executive Director of Theatre (source)
• Amy Cody — Director of Development (source)
• Lucy Cuthbertson — Director of Education, Learning and Families (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).

• Arts Council England — “Shakespeare’s Globe gratefully acknowledge support through the Culture Recovery Fund from Arts Council England” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 (375,333 followers) · instagram (336K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhiachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Kent Jones
• Deborah-Lynn Rebecca Myers
• Despina Tsatsas
• Dipo Baruwa-Etti
• Her Honour Deborah Frances Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Indy Saha
• John Kenneth Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ramia El Agamy
• Ruth Rowan

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GUILDFORD SHAKESPEARE COMPANY TRUST LTD.

• GUILDFORD SHAKESPEARE COMPANY TRUST LTD income £843k
• THE PRIMARY SHAKESPEARE COMPANY income £522k
• THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST income £8.7m
• THE BRITISH SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION income £31k
• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £3.1m
• THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £434k

Side by side with its peers

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