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Registered charity · Kingston upon Thames

Kingston Theatre Trust

Kingston Theatre Trust is a registered charity (number 1000182) based in Kingston upon Thames, governed by 16 trustees. Latest income £3.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Rose of Kingston, The First Theatre of the 21st Century (Charity Commission)

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £3.9m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Website
rosetheatrekingston.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Kingston Theatre Trust
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.9m£3.9m
  • 2024£3.9m£4.1m
  • 2023£4.2m£4.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.6m£3.3m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, OPERA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, DANCE, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING

Grants received

10 grants · £819,230 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £578,115 (2 grants)
  • Backstage Trust · £140,315 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £55,800
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £40,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,000

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

16 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 16Education/training 16General Charitable Purposes 16

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 13Professional services 4Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

67 from 50 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1000182
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1ST MAY 1990 AS AMENDED BY A SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11TH FEBRUARY 2002, NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30 JUNE 2010. as amended on 03 Sep 2020 as amended on 06 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 02497984 · Active
Contact on the register
02089394062 · admin@rosetheatrekingston.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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