Registered charity · Winchester
Play to the Crowd
- 13 trustees
- Income £2.7m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Mark ByfordChair · since 2021
- Amy EastwoodTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Helen GrimeTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Paul James SpencerTrustee · since 2017
- Lorraine CheshireTrustee · since 2021
- Lynne LockyerTrustee · since 2021
- Madeleine RisbridgerTrustee · since 2025
- Majid Salim DhanaTrustee · since 2021
- Noemi WallTrustee · since 2024
- Professor William Robert LucasTrustee · since 2026
- Shaun StaceyTrustee · since 2019
- Sho ShibataTrustee · since 2021
- Steven CrossTrustee · since 2019
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
- Hampshire
- Website
- playtothecrowd.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Play to the Crowd
- Registered
- 1999
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.7m£2.7m
- 2024£2.6m£2.6m
- 2023£2.3m£2.4m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£1.9m
- 2021£1.7m£1.1m
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN DRAMA, MIME, OPERA, SINGING MUSIC, DANCE, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, CINEMA, LITERATURE AND THE OTHER ARTS
Board analysis for researchers
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.
13 trustees on the board
- Mark Byford Chair since 2021
- Amy Eastwood since 2019
- Dr Helen Grime since 2025
- Dr Paul James Spencer since 2017
- Lorraine Cheshire since 2021
- Lynne Lockyer since 2021
- Madeleine Risbridger since 2025
- Majid Salim Dhana since 2021
- Noemi Wall since 2024
- Professor William Robert Lucas since 2026
- Shaun Stacey since 2019
- Sho Shibata since 2021
- Steven Cross since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Amy Eastwood since 2019
- Dr Paul James Spencer since 2017
- Shaun Stacey since 2019
- Steven Cross since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Mark Byford Chair since 2021
- Amy Eastwood since 2019
- Dr Helen Grime since 2025
- Lorraine Cheshire since 2021
- Lynne Lockyer since 2021
- Madeleine Risbridger since 2025
- Majid Salim Dhana since 2021
- Noemi Wall since 2024
- Shaun Stacey since 2019
- Sho Shibata since 2021
- Steven Cross since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Paul James Spencer since 2017
- Professor William Robert Lucas since 2026
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
2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1077139
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 JANUARY 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 13 JULY 1999 AS AMENDED 6 NOVEMBER 2001 as amended on 10 Sep 2019 as amended on 24 Jul 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 03696681 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01962 844600 · accounts@playtothecrowd.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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