BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME THEATRE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 510842 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust was established to present theatrical productions, encourage the arts and promote education. As one of the world's leading presenting theatres it aims to be world-class in every respect: to present a wide-ranging, high quality, developing programme, to ensure access for all, to develop a growing & diverse audience & to complement this with a range of creative education & outreach events.

Objects

(A) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING, FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND A HIGH STANDARD OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR DRAMATIC ART IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND IN SUCH OTHER PLACES IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM TO BE THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE INTELLECTUAL WEAL OF THE PUBLIC.(B) TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN STUDENTS IN DRAMA, MUSIC AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTS, AND TO PROMOTE THE RECOGNITION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN STUDENTS BY THE INSTITUTION AND PRESENTATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, GRANTS, MEDALS OR OTHER PRIZES OR BENEFACTIONS.

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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £391,000 for the period ended 29 March 2025, with total group funds standing at £32.8 million. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted non-designated reserves were £2.7 million, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £2.759 million, a shortfall expected to be removed by the following year's budgeted surplus.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation — “Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation” (source page)
• Baron Davenport’s Charity — “Baron Davenport’s Charity” (source page)
• Birmingham Bodenham Trust — “Birmingham Bodenham Trust” (source page)
• The Bishop of Birmingham Charitable Trust — “The Bishop of Birmingham Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Creative Futures Fund — “Creative Futures Fund” (source page)
• The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust — “The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust — “The Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust — “The Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust” (source page)
• The Garrick Charitable Trust — “The Garrick Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Holloway Foundation — “The Holloway Foundation” (source page)
• Hortons’ Social Purpose Committee — “Hortons’ Social Purpose Committee” (source page)
• IMI Charitable Trust — “IMI Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £8.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Birmingham Hippodrome scores 2.9/5 from 6 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (97,055 followers) · instagram (48K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Mallyonchair
• Andrew Alexander Connors
• Andrew Hammond
• Elizabeth Lawal
• HARJINDER MILLINGTON
• Jacqueline Mary O'Hanlon
• Justin Sinclair Varney-Bennett
• Kathryn Jane Marten
• Ranjit Kaur Dhindsa
• Tru Powell

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED.

• SCARBOROUGH THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £3.1m
• UNFOLDING THEATRE income £221k
• THE HAVERING THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £4.7m
• BECKENHAM THEATRE TRUST income £0
• THE EMPIRE THEATRE (MERSEYSIDE) TRUST LIMITED income £108k
• PAPATANGO THEATRE COMPANY LTD income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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