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Registered charity · Liverpool

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Liverpool City
Website
www.lipa.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£15m
  • 2024£14m£14m
  • 2023£13m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2022£13m£12m
  • 2021£11m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, ENABLE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE FOR AND ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR TO GENERATE INTEREST IN, PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND TO CONDUCT, CARRY ON, ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM INSTITUTIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS OR CHILDREN, PARTICULARLY POOR CHILDREN, IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND ANCILLARY SKILLS.

Grants received

10 grants · £231,035 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

Most recent

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.

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

15
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15Other Charitable Purposes 15General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Education 22Arts and leisure 12Other services 4

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£15.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

16.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 19.3 in 2021

157 from 152 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
1001565
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13 JUNE 1990 NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25 MARCH 2011 AND APPROVED BY PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE (UNDER THE EDUCATION REFORM ACT 1988 (AS AMENDED)) ON 20 APRIL 2011
Companies House
Company number 02511501 · Active
Contact on the register
01513303000 · reception@lipa.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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