ALEXANDRA PARK AND PALACE

Registered charity 281991 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALEXANDRA PALACE, ALLY PALLY

The principal activity of Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust is the maintenance as an open space and provision of the Park and Palace for the free use and recreation of the public forever as defined in the 1985 Act.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that consolidated unrestricted reserves amounted to £25.3m, which is above the stated policy target of six months of running costs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties, supported by ongoing funding from the corporate trustee and robust commercial trading performance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• Alexandra Park and Palace adds fifth defibrillator after two cardiac emergencies enfieldindependent.co.uk · 31/03/2026

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ALEXANDRA PALACE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 03819988

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Dagnes OBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Cllr Melanie Gingell — Chair (source)
• Nikki Cornwell — Director of Finance & Resources (source)
• Simon Fell — Director of Events, Festivals and Leisure (source)
• Lucy Fenner — Commercial Director (source)
• Catherine Solomon — Director of HR & Organisational Development (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (77% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Melanie Ann Gingellchair
• Daniela Louise Parry
• Duncan Neill
• Eva Bell
• Jason Beazley
• Marie Dippel Kristensen
• Nick da Costa
• Nigel Willmott
• Rosie Latchford

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PARHAM PARK TRUST (1984).

• THE PARHAM PARK TRUST (1984) income £983k
• THE PALACE TRUST income £2.2m
• CRYSTAL PALACE PARK TRUST income £2.7m
• WEST HAM PARK income £1.7m
• THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £835k
• PALACE FOR ALL LIMITED income £160k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.