ALMEIDA THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED

Registered charity 282167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Primarily producing and presenting plays and other performances at our theatre

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £123,954 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £7,127,816 against total expenditure of £7,251,770. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,652,661, which exceeds the stated policy target of £1,500,000, and the trustees concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ALMEIDA THEATRE CATERING LIMITED Companies House 01534585
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01546033
• Trading subsidiary: ALMEIDA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED Companies House 01827351

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dominic Cooke — Artistic Director (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).

• The Ingram Trust — “Major Donors K.L. Breuss & G.P. Burgess Adam & Victoria Freudenheim The Ingram Trust” (source page)
• The Charlotte Aitken Trust — “Major Trusts & Foundations Anonymous The Charlotte Aitken Trust” (source page)
• The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust — “Trusts & Foundations Anonymous The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust” (source page)

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.

• ROBINSON, Aliceson Lizabeth — director, appointed 16/06/2026not on trustee list
• FINCH, Alan Arthur — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• LANGAN, Christine Anne — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• INGRAM, Tamara — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• ARMAH, John Kwesi — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• BANGA, Kamini — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• PARR, Rachel Clare — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• KUMAR, Sarisha Rheanne — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• HENDERSON, Dorothy Mary — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• FERDINAND, Manisha Ann — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• CLARK, Tania Jane — secretary, appointed 10/02/2010

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% 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: 10.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Langan
• Dorothy Henderson
• John Armah
• Kamini Banga · trustee of 2 other charities
• Manisha Ferdinand
• Rachel Parr
• Sarisha Kumar
• Tamara Ingram · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Kamini Banga — trustee here and at THE KAMINI AND VINDI BANGA FAMILY TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).