Registered charity · Liverpool
Unity Theatre
- 9 trustees
- Income £630k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Peter MearnsChair · since 2024
- Berta MaiaTrustee · since 2025
- Daniel ByeTrustee · since 2025
- Ezequiel Serrano PerezTrustee · since 2025
- Helen JefferyTrustee · since 2024
- Laura Charlotte TellwrightTrustee · since 2024
- Michael CavanaghTrustee · since 2025
- Samantha BirkettTrustee · since 2025
- Uzair PatelTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Liverpool City
- Website
- www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Unity Theatre
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£630k£549k
- 2024£508k£570k
- 2023£478k£648k
Earlier years
- 2022£492k£631k
- 2021£786k£493k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 62%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE ART OF DRAMA, DANCE, MIME AND MUSIC.TO PROVIDE AND MANAGE A THEATRE.TO PROMOTE ALL OTHER OBJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE.
Grants received
11 grants · £1,140,323 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 · £554,010 (2 grants)
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £277,005
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £231,308 (5 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £40,000
- Backstage Trust · £35,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Peter Mearns Chair since 2024
- Berta Maia since 2025
- Daniel Bye since 2025
- Ezequiel Serrano Perez since 2025
- Helen Jeffery since 2024
- Laura Charlotte Tellwright since 2024
- Michael Cavanagh since 2025
- Samantha Birkett since 2025
- Uzair Patel since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Berta Maia since 2025
- Daniel Bye since 2025
- Ezequiel Serrano Perez since 2025
- Helen Jeffery since 2024
- Laura Charlotte Tellwright since 2024
- Samantha Birkett since 2025
- Uzair Patel since 2025
Portfolio (2)
- Peter Mearns Chair since 2024
- Michael Cavanagh 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.
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
35.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1062463
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 MARCH 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 1 MAY 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 SEP 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 03333987 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01517096502 · info@unitytheatre.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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