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Registered charity · London

The Guildhall School Trust

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £4.5m (2025)
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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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.gsmd.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Guildhall School Trust
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.5m£3.4m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.9m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£2.0m
  • 2021£1.5m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD:3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AND PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS (“STUDENTS”) OF THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA (“THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL”) IN MUSIC OR DRAMA (INCLUDING STAGE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED PRODUCTION AND DESIGN) AND ANY OTHER OBJECT CONSIDERED BY THE TRUSTEES TO BE BENEFICIAL TO THE PROMOTION OF MUSIC AND DRAMA (INCLUDING STAGE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED PRODUCTION AND DESIGN) AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL; AND3.2 TO SUPPORT ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN WHICH THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OR ANY STUDENT MAY ENGAGE AND WHICH PROMOTES MUSIC OR DRAMA (INCLUDING STAGE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED PRODUCTION AND DESIGN).

Grants received

31 grants · £7,968,706 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

14 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

13
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 2General Charitable Purposes 2Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Education 23Arts and leisure 13Other services 3

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£4.5m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.0 in 2021

0
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1082472
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 27TH JULY 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 OCT 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 JAN 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 JUN 2018
Companies House
Company number 04041975 · Active
Contact on the register
0207382 7157 · rachel.davis@gsmd.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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