THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 271706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION

The education of the public in the art of drama and the promotion of their appreciation of classical and modern drama in all its artistic forms at the Royal National Theatre (the NT"); the relief of past or present employees of the NT who are in necessitous circumstances; as ancilliary to the above objects, to support the NT in its aims to further the appreciation of classical and modern drama.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF DRAMA AND TO PROMOTE THEIR APPRECIATION OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN DRAMA IN ALL ITS ARTISTIC FORMS AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE. TO RELIEVE PAST OR PRESENT EMPLOYEES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains a going concern with sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due, supported by an investment portfolio valued at £6,386,967. The trustees consider the level of free reserves to be adequate to respond to potential grant applications in the foreseeable future. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing total funds carried forward to £5,914,335.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark John Crosbiechair
• Ceinewn Rees
• Dame Ursula Mary Brennan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hazel O'Dell
• Moira Sarah Sinclair
• Sarah Greene
• Sarah Maria Wiggins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Minty · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• NATIONAL DRAMA income £28k
• THE THEATRE ROYAL BATH LIMITED income £19.7m
• THE ROYAL THEATRICAL SUPPORT TRUST income £82k
• THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £434k
• THE LOFT THEATRE COMPANY income £179k
• THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE income £128.7m

Side by side with its peers

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