WAKEFIELD THEATRE TRUST

Registered charity 503597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WAKEFIELD METROPOLITAN FESTIVAL COMPANY LIMITED

Theatre owners & managers; cultural development agency focused primarily on the performing arts in Wakefield District but with extensive national touring throughout the UK.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £610,000, which is above its stated policy target of £350,000. The Trustees consider that adequate resources continue to be available to fund activities for the foreseeable future, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties exist regarding the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60k to £70k (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Theatre Royal Wakefield (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Godber — Creative Director (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).

• Heritage Fund — “Website supported by Heritage Fund” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Ellen Cattley
• Daniel John McCormack
• Darren Johnson
• KATHRYN MORGAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nigel Gordon Brook · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL EDWARD WAINWRIGHT
• Peter Box · trustee of 2 other charities
• Victoria Ackroyd

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

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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 THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £1.0m
• THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD income £4.2m
• WORCESTER THEATRES CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £2.6m
• WAKEFIELD AND TETLEY TRUST income £434k
• WOKINGHAM THEATRE income £281k
• UNITY THEATRE TRUST income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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