ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND

Registered charity 285766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of funding and facilities for students at The Royal Ballet School.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves decreased to £29,669,000 following the award of sizeable grants, including a significant return of unrestricted funds. The charity maintains a portfolio of permanent endowments and restricted funds, with unrestricted reserves held at £16,241,000. The trustees report that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and no material uncertainties were identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Kinoshita Group — “Kinoshita Group has been passionately involved in supporting the arts and culture to date. In particular, they have been supporting Japanese…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~103.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (81% 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: 42.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ms Zita Saurelchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katharine Bolsover · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD CUNIS
• Thomas Clementi · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL income £16.6m
• BALLET RAMBERT LIMITED income £3.2m
• ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.6m
• ROYAL BALLET BENEVOLENT FUND income £342k
• RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED income £5.1m
• THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND 2000 income £4.1m

Side by side with its peers

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