Registered charity · Cambridge
The Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust Limited
- 4 trustees
- Income £19m (2025)
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
- Cambridgeshire
- Website
- www.cambridgeartstheatre.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust Limited
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£19m£5.8m
- 2024£5.4m£5.6m
- 2023£5.6m£5.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£6.3m£4.2m
- 2021£1.8m£1.8m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE SURROUNDING REGION AND ELSEWHERE:3.1 TO PROMOTE THE ARTS OF DRAMA, DANCE AND MUSIC AND ANY OTHER FORMS OF ART ALLIED TO THE SAME INCLUDING BY PROMOTING AND ARRANGING PERFORMANCES; AND3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ARTS OF DRAMA, DANCE AND MUSIC AND ALLIED ART FORMS THROUGH PROMOTING OR ARRANGING EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS OR OTHER ACTIVITIES WHICH THE TRUSTEES THINK APPROPRIATE.
Grants received
4 grants · £710,732 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 · £445,761
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £250,000
- Cambridgeshire Community Foundation · £8,871
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £6,100
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Community 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.
4 trustees on the board
- SIR Richard Dearlove Kcmg OBE Chair since 2017
- Andrew Thomas Swarbrick since 2011
- Philip Woolner since 2025
- Shaun Grady since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- SIR Richard Dearlove Kcmg OBE Chair since 2017
- Andrew Thomas Swarbrick since 2011
- Shaun Grady since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Philip Woolner since 2025
- Shaun Grady since 2016
Portfolio (2)
- SIR Richard Dearlove Kcmg OBE Chair since 2017
- Andrew Thomas Swarbrick since 2011
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1069912
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/03/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/05/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/01/2000NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 31/01/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/06/2013 as amended on 25 Sept 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 03536370 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01223 578933 · finance@cambridgeartstheatre.com
- 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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