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Registered charity · London

The Chicken Shed Theatre Trust

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £4.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Enfield, Kensington And Chelsea
Website
www.chickenshed.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chicken Shed Theatre Trust
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.5m£4.3m
  • 2024£3.8m£3.7m
  • 2023£3.9m£3.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.9m£3.2m
  • 2021£3.4m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 24% · Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, MORE PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELD OF FINE ARTS, HISTORY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, DRAMA, OPERA, BALLET, MUSIC AND ANY OTHER PURELY CULTURAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED IT SHALL BE CHARITABLE PRINCIPALLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PERSONS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THOSE WHO REQUIRE HELP WITH MOBILITY, COMMUNICATION, BEHAVIOUR OR SELF HELP SKILLS OR WITH SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH A VIEW TO EDUCATING THEM IN SUCH FIELDS, INTEGRATING THEM INTO THE COMMUNITY AND ASSISTING THEM IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT AS FULL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. (2)THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE TRUST MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Grants received

29 grants · £1,713,534 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.

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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.

6.1y median 6.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (16)

Portfolio (1)

16
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 17Education/training 17General Charitable Purposes 17

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

Property 23Health and social care 17Finance 15

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£4.5m 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.

5.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.6 in 2021

115 from 91 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.
32%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1012369
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8TH APRIL 1992
Companies House
Company number 02705172 · Active
Contact on the register
02082162712 · info@chickenshed.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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