CENTRAL SCHOOL OF BALLET CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 285398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Higher Education - Artistic - Foundation Degree and BA Hons Degree in Professional Dance and Professional Performance.MA Choreography

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £631,558 for the year ended 31 July 2025, primarily driven by non-cash depreciation and interest costs related to its property lease. Despite this loss, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,121,270, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover more than three months of operating expenditure in line with their policy. The charity remains dependent on reduced government grant funding and is actively working to diversify income streams to ensure long-term financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Central School of Ballet (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Osterfield — Executive Director (source)
• Kate Coyne — 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 Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement — “The Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement” (source page)
• The Big Give and The Reed Foundation — “The Big Give and The Reed Foundation” (source page)
• The Gillian Fleet Bequest — “The Gillian Fleet Bequest” (source page)
• SE Franklin Trust Number 3 — “SE Franklin Trust Number 3” (source page)
• The David and Jennifer Sieff Charitable Trust — “The David and Jennifer Sieff Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Tabor Foundation — “The Tabor Foundation” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors — “The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLOTTE SCHONBERGchair
• Alexander Charles Heathcote Tatham
• Christopher Hampson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dawn Farrow
• EDWARD THOMAS KEMP
• Elizabeth Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Harvey
• Karina Anne Mowbray
• Kate Philpot
• Mark Goodey
• STEPHEN KANE
• Safron Susan Rose
• Susannah Jane Marsden

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELMHURST BALLET SCHOOL.

• ELMHURST BALLET SCHOOL income £5.4m
• ACS DANCE CENTRE income £256k
• BRITISH BALLET ORGANIZATION LIMITED income £1.1m
• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.6m
• BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED income £3.2m
• DANCEBOX THEATRE WORKS income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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