LAMDA LTD

Registered charity 312821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMATIC ART, LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART

In addition to five validated degree programmes, LAMDA offers a Foundation Course and a number of Diplomas, semester and short courses for the private market. The work of the Drama School is complemented by that of Examinations, through which LAMDA offers a drama and communications-based syllabus leading to accredited and non-accredited awards in the UK and overseas.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that LAMDA concluded the financial year with a marginal operating surplus of £90,000, effectively achieving a break-even position despite inflationary pressures. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £6,073,214, contributing to a total net asset position of £26,479,229. The trustees and auditors confirm that the organization is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its future viability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from in excess of £100,000 (FY2024) to £157,590 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Mark O’Thomas — Principal and Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Philippa Strandberg-Long — Vice Principal - Actor Training & Drama School (source)
• Dr Nicholas Holden — Vice Principal - Education & Research (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).

• Audible UK — “Leadership supporters Audible UK” (source page)
• Bloomberg Philanthropies — “Bloomberg Philanthropies” (source page)
• Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust — “Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Anne, Lady Dodd and The Sir Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation — “Anne, Lady Dodd and The Sir Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• The Leverhulme Trust — “The Leverhulme Trust” (source page)
• The MLDauray Arts Initiative — “The MLDauray Arts Initiative” (source page)
• The Estate of the late Isobel Monk — “The Estate of the late Isobel Monk” (source page)
• The Estate of the late Peter Woods — “The Estate of the late Peter Woods” (source page)
• E B M Charitable Trust — “E B M Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Enterprise Arts Trust — “Enterprise Arts Trust” (source page)
• Marina Kleinwort Charitable Trust — “Marina Kleinwort Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Mila Charitable Organisation — “The Mila Charitable Organisation” (source page)
• The Noël Coward Foundation — “The Noël Coward Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ROPER · trustee of 2 other charities
• George Thomas Ryan
• Helen Sarah Wright
• Joanne Margaret Hirst
• LORD THOMAS ORLANDO CHANDOS
• Leah Isabelle Melanie Ferguson
• Mark De Faria Thomas
• Michelle Janice Daisley
• Nathan Richardson
• Nese Guner Rosborough
• Prof Naren Anthony Barfield
• Prof, OBE Frances Corner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dame Shirley Anne Teresa Pearce
• Professor Mohammad Dastbaz
• Rory Michael Kinnear
• Shamez Alibhai
• Sir Nigel Carrington
• Thomas Laing-Baker

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 THE OXFORD SCHOOL OF DRAMA TRUST.

• THE OXFORD SCHOOL OF DRAMA TRUST income £1.7m
• THEATRE DESIGN COURSE LIMITED income £100k
• THE ACADEMY FOR THEATRE ARTS LTD income £251k
• BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY income £3.4m
• THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART income £16.7m
• MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS LIMITED income £9.0m

Side by side with its peers

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