TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC AND DANCE

Registered charity 309998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q379124 · Wikipedia · also known as LABAN, TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON, TRINITY LABAN

Specialist, practice-based higher education to equip students for successful careers as performers, composers and choreographers in the fields of music and contemporary dance.Lifelong learning opportunities in dance and music.Outreach and community-based projects.Promotion of research and scholarship to advance the art forms of music and dance.Provision of music and dance performances.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC, DANCE AND ASSOCIATED ART FORMS GENERALLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO IMPROVE THE PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION OF MUSIC, DANCE AND OTHER STUDENTS.

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a comprehensive deficit of £1.6m for the year ended 31 July 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, driven by operating costs and pension adjustments. Per the trustees' report, the institution maintains a sustainable balance sheet with no borrowings, holding £2.1m in cash and £2.0m in investments to support its operations and meet its going concern assessment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 3 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• AR Rahman becomes Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance's Honorary President cinemaexpress.com · 12/12/2024
• My experience: double bassist Alex Ferkey, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance London thestrad.com · 16/05/2024
• Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance – Betty Blue Eyes musicaltheatrereview.com · 18/06/2018

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 (22,196 followers) · instagram (41K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Daveychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ae Ryun Anne Kim
• Amadea Topalli
• Emma Catherine Kerr
• Fiona Elizabeth Moorhead
• James Anthony Mullan
• John Lord Hudson
• Laura Cunningham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Steven Maximilian Puller
• Michael John Elliott
• Neil Alan Thomas
• PROFESSOR ANTHONY BOWNE · trustee of 5 other charities
• Virginia Leitch
• William Jonathan Aitchison
• Zoey Hudson

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 LANGUAGE OF DANCE TRUST.

• LANGUAGE OF DANCE TRUST income £265k
• RAMBERT TRUST LIMITED income £5.1m
• COUNCIL FOR DANCE, DRAMA AND MUSICAL THEATRE income £273k
• THE DANCE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST income £48k
• NORTHERN DANCE income £87k
• SWINDON DANCE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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