THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 306075 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE · also registered in Scotland as SC043665 (OSCR)

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY THAT OF YOUNG PERSONS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 14 TO 25 YEARS THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF DRAMA, MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD AND THROUGH AN UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE BRITISH DRAMATIC HERITAGE.FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE WEBSITE www.nyt.org.uk

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £31,847 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,950,089 and total expenditure of £3,918,242. Per the trustees' report, free reserves totalled £739,670, which represents six months of overheads cover and falls within the stated reserves policy of maintaining between six months to one year of annual operational expenditure. The charity holds significant long-term debt of £2,506,066 secured against its leasehold property but confirms it met all bank covenants during the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £2.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAWN ELIZABETH AIREYchair
• DAVID HOCKLEY
• Daniel Frederick York
• Dr SIMON STOCKILL
• Graham Clive Elton · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN EDWARD CAPPS
• Janet Michell Ellis MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Hung Han Yun
• Jonathan Maitland Moore
• Josephine Cluer
• MARY FITZPATRICK
• Oluwatobi Gladys Ama Kyeremateng
• Prasanna Puwanarajah
• SIMON DAVIES
• SYLVIA DARKWA-OHEMENG
• Sri Krishnan Guru-Murthy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Martin Whitehead
• Sue Vertue

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

Operates in: China · Northern Ireland · Saudi Arabia · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN.

• THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN income £5.2m
• NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.9m
• CENTRESTAGE PRODUCTIONS YOUTH THEATRE income £131k
• LEWISHAM YOUTH THEATRE LTD income £397k
• National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £605k
• CENTRAL YOUTH THEATRE income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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