SOCIETY OF BRITISH THEATRE DESIGNERS LIMITED

Registered charity 800638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society of British Theatre Designers is a professional organisation run by designers for the benefit of designers. It was created to benefit theatre designers and their profession and to explore and further the role of the designer within the arts today.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE ART OF THEATRE DESIGN IN THE BRITISH ISLES AND COMMONWEALTH AND ELSEWHERE BY BRITISH DESIGNERS AND DESIGNRS WORKING IN THE BRITISH THEATRE PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION INFORMATION AND ADVICE RELATING TO THEATRE DESIGN, THE EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS AND THEATRICAL MATERIAL, RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINATION DESIGN AND USE OF THEATRICAL EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND METHODS AND THE PUBLICATION OF LITERARY MATERIAL AND ILLUSTRATIONS DERIVED THEREFROM.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves fell to £24,612 at the end of the year, which is below the stated policy target of a £5,000 cash reserve. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02325776 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• REES, Adrian — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• SCOTT, Katie Ann — director, appointed 16/12/2024on trustee list
• FARLEY, David — director, appointed 11/03/2021on trustee list
• BURNETT, Kate — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• SHAW, Nicky — director, appointed 01/01/2020not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Rees
• David Farley
• Kate Burnett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katie Scott
• Nicola Shaw

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH THEATRE TECHNICIANS.

• THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH THEATRE TECHNICIANS income £907k
• THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY income £60k
• THE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION income £1.3m
• THEATRE WORKS income £159k
• UNFOLDING THEATRE income £221k
• THEATRE DESIGN COURSE LIMITED income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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