THEATRE ROYAL (PLYMOUTH) LIMITED

Registered charity 284545 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THEATRE ROYAL PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £1.4m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £5.1m. The trustees confirmed that these reserves exceed the stated policy target of £1.8m and are sufficient to meet the charity's obligations. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Theatre Royal Plymouth (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Coomer
• Andrew John Hendy Ibbs
• Anjinder Kaur Bual
• Dawn Marie Williams
• Dr James Woodhams
• Emma-Marie Laura Huxham
• Hannah May Sloggett
• James Thomas Pidgeon
• Jonathan Andrew Sparkes
• Julie Anne Nash
• Lynda Jane Grzelinski
• Rachel Hutchinson
• Samra Said · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Louise Fysh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah McAdam
• Shona Elizabeth Godefroy

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL-TRUSTEES (PORTSMOUTH) LIMITED.

• THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL-TRUSTEES (PORTSMOUTH) LIMITED income £1.4m
• THEATRE ROYAL (NORWICH) TRUST LIMITED income £20.2m
• CITY OF PLYMOUTH THEATRE COMPANY income £137k
• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m
• ALPHABETTI THEATRE income £423k
• THE ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND income £679k

Side by side with its peers

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