SADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED
Registered charity 279884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SADLERS WELLS THEATRE
The object for which the charity is established is to advance education particularly by encouraging the understanding and appreciation of the dramatic arts.
Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that total reserves increased to £13.1m, with unrestricted reserves at £4.5m, meeting the trustees' stated target of £3.5m for free reserves. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £6.2m, driven by a surplus on restricted funds, despite an unrestricted funds deficit of £0.3m. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Sir Alistair Spalding CBE — Chief Executive (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.
- SOTO, Alexandra — director, appointed 21/04/2026on trustee list
- WILLIAMS, Paul Malcolm — director, appointed 08/04/2026not on trustee list
- WHITE, Sharon Michele — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
- DEBBONAIRE, Thangam Elizabeth Rachel, Baroness — director, appointed 17/02/2025on trustee list
- GRACE, Nicholas Andrew — director, appointed 23/04/2024on trustee list
- PEEL, Yana Alexandra — director, appointed 04/10/2023on trustee list
- KHAN, Suhair Fariha — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
- CONNOR, Clare Jane — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
- PATEL, Nina — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
- MULHOLLAND, Paul Edward — director, appointed 22/02/2022on trustee list
- NEWTON, Brenda Leslie — director, appointed 22/02/2022on trustee list
- BASDEN, Nicholas Bernard — director, appointed 22/04/2021on trustee list
- SLOTOVER, Matthew Jake — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
- ALBONICO, Maria — director, appointed 30/06/2020on trustee list
- SMITH, Melanie Jane — director, appointed 26/02/2020on trustee list
- BATTCOCK, Humphrey William — director, appointed 27/09/2017on trustee list
- HIGGINS, Nigel — director, appointed 01/01/2017on trustee list
- SPALDING, Alistair William — secretary, appointed 24/11/2004
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 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 (221,037 followers) · instagram (249K followers)
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£4.6m
Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (53% 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: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: City Of Westminster · Islington
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total reserves increased to £13.1m, with unrestricted reserves at £4.5m, meeting the trustees' stated target of £3.5m for free reserves. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £6.2m, driven by a surplus on restricted funds, despite an unrestricted funds deficit of £0.3m. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP.
Who funds SADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SADLER'S WELLS TRUST LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE MOHN WESTLAKE FOUNDATION, THE FOYLE FOUNDATION, THREE MONKIES TRUST, THE DORFMAN FOUNDATION, PROJECT GIVING BACK.
Shared trustees with funders
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Known funders
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