Registered charity · Blackpool
Blackpool Grand Theatre (Arts and Entertainments) Limited
- 11 trustees
- Income £5.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Alistair ArmitChair · since 2022
- Andrew Edward CrawfordTrustee · since 2025
- Andrew WalkerTrustee · since 2025
- Benjamin Steven ForrestTrustee · since 2025
- Jeanette PopeTrustee · since 2022
- Karen MetcalfeTrustee · since 2022
- Martin ScraggTrustee · since 2022
- Michelle AmosTrustee · since 2022
- Peter AkroydTrustee · since 2018
- Peter Thomas LeggTrustee · since 2025
- Ruth Emma CockburnTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Blackpool
- Website
- www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Blackpool Grand Theatre (Arts & Entertainments) Limited
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5.3m£4.6m
- 2024£4.5m£4.4m
- 2023£4.0m£3.9m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.5m£3.4m
- 2021£1.7m£1.4m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2023: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, ASSIST AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DESIGN, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.)
Grants received
6 grants · £943,225 total360Giving 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 · £683,576 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £244,899 (3 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £14,750
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Alistair Armit Chair since 2022
- Andrew Edward Crawford since 2025
- Andrew Walker since 2025
- Benjamin Steven Forrest since 2025
- Jeanette Pope since 2022
- Karen Metcalfe since 2022
- Martin Scragg since 2022
- Michelle Amos since 2022
- Peter Akroyd since 2018
- Peter Thomas Legg since 2025
- Ruth Emma Cockburn since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Peter Akroyd since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Alistair Armit Chair since 2022
- Andrew Edward Crawford since 2025
- Andrew Walker since 2025
- Benjamin Steven Forrest since 2025
- Jeanette Pope since 2022
- Karen Metcalfe since 2022
- Martin Scragg since 2022
- Michelle Amos since 2022
- Peter Akroyd since 2018
- Peter Thomas Legg since 2025
- Ruth Emma Cockburn since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1022754
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/02/2016
- Companies House
- Company number 02825229 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01253743300 · FINANCE@BLACKPOOLGRAND.CO.UK
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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