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Riding Lights

Registered charity 1070142 Registered since 1998

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.

Arts and leisure 2Business services 1Finance 1

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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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£455k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.ridinglights.org
Emailinfo@rltc.org
Phone01904 655317
AddressRiding Lights Theatre Co, Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, YORK, YO1 9SL

Finances

£455,442 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£320,747£294,491
2022£369,905£302,448
2023£336,405£415,890
2024£337,436£420,194
2025£455,442£483,331

What it does

What

Education/trainingReligious ActivitiesArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE DRAMATIC ARTS BY PROVIDING AND PRESENTING TO THE PUBLIC HIGH QUALITY PERFORMANCES OF THEATRE OPERA OPERETTA BALLET MUSICALS CINEMA AND OTHER PERFORMANCES WHICH ARE OF EDUCATIONAL CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY (B) TO TEACH TRAIN AND ENCOURAGE YOUNG ARTISTS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC ARTS (C) TO EXPLORE PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE DRAMATIC ARTS THE RELEVANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH TO CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND ITS POTENTIAL TO EFFECT POSITIVE CHANGE

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2ND JUNE 1998 as amended on 06 Aug 2019

Trustees (10)

10trustees
57median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Riding Lights · 03573945 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 02/06/1998

3 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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