BACKSTAGE TRUST — grant history

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listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 19 of 24 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (79%), and 6 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 251.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

• FROZEN LIGHT “We are proud to have core support from the Paul Bassham Charitable Trust, The Backstage Trust, Arts Council England, The”
• THE GATE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED “The Gate is appreciative of the support from Backstage Trust, The Chalk Cliff Trust, Charles S French Charitable Trust, ”
• UNTOLD CREATIVE TRAINING LTD “We are supported by the generosity of, Backstage Trust, Sheriff and Recorder, Buffini Chao, Youth Music, Garfield Weston”
• THE ROUNDHOUSE TRUST “Leading Supporters Alex Graham / Backstage Trust (supporter of the Backstage Studio) / Brian and Lynne Magnus”
• TWOCAN INCLUSIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED “major donations have come from Active Impact, Arts Council England, Asda Foundation, Backstage Trust, Barnwood Trust, C”
• THE PARK THEATRE “Trusts & Foundations  Atkin Foundation, Backstage Trust, The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust, Boris Karloff Charitable F”
• ARDENT THEATRE COMPANY “every donation to Ardent through The Big Give will be matched £1-for-£1 by The Backstage Trust — doubling your impact in”
• YOUNG CLASSICAL ARTISTS TRUST “We are incredibly grateful for the continued and committed support of all who have supported the Young Classical Artists”
• NORTHERN BALLET LIMITED “Thanks to the generous support of Backstage Trust, Northern Ballet has been able to undertake a critical upgrade of our ”
• HEADLONG THEATRE LIMITED “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust”
• LEICESTER THEATRE TRUST LIMITED “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust”
• ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust”
• LEEDS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED “Trusts and Foundations Backstage Trust”
• PIONEER THEATRES LIMITED “Royal Victoria Hall Foundation The Backstage Trust”
• BELGRADE THEATRE TRUST (COVENTRY) LIMITED “Trusts & Foundations (previous, revenue) Backstage Trust”
• YORK CITIZENS' THEATRE TRUST LIMITED “Trusts and Foundations – The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Theatres Trust, Enterprise Arts Trust, Ed de Nunzio Charitable ”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 3664363 vs reference 4471666 (18.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.