THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 292559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as T D T

The principal activity of the charity is to promote and advance the dramatic and other performing arts for the benefit of the public through supporting the work of various charitable foundations together with the provision of grants to people in the arts.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE DRAMATIC AND OTHER PERFORMING ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,329,978, which is above its stated policy target of £2.6m. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £394,888 for the year, driven largely by investment gains and the liquidation of investments to repay a significant loan. The trustees confirm that assets are sufficient to meet obligations and that the charity is a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01928541

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.

• BAKER, Tristan Michael Douglas — director, appointed 03/07/2024on trustee list
• WAX, Kenneth Howard — director, appointed 03/07/2024on trustee list
• RAWLINSON, Andrew — director, appointed 03/07/2024on trustee list
• BOURNE, Griselda Rose — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Anna Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/04/2023on trustee list
• BIRD, Thomas William — director, appointed 28/04/2023on trustee list
• COLLIER, Andrew James Neville — director, appointed 28/04/2023on trustee list
• FINCH, Henrietta Lucy Anne — director, appointed 23/11/2022on trustee list
• FINCH, Alan Arthur — director, appointed 23/11/2022not on trustee list
• BENNETT, Kathryn Ruth — director, appointed 04/11/2020on trustee list
• GAVIN, Alexander Rupert, Sir — director, appointed 21/06/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~35.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 38.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kathryn Ruth Bennettchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Collier · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Rawlinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Elizabeth Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Griselda Bourne
• HENRIETTA FINCH
• Kenneth Howard Wax
• MARK GABRIEL RUBINSTEIN
• Sir Alexander Rupert Gavin
• Thomas William Bird
• Tristan Michael Douglas Baker

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 SCARBOROUGH THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £489k
• LEICESTER THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £18.5m
• THEATRE WORKS income £159k
• WICKHAM THEATRE TRUST income £44k
• THE UPSTAGERS THEATRE CHARITY LIMITED income £93k
• THE ROYAL THEATRICAL SUPPORT TRUST income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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