The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Told BY AN Idiot

Registered charity 1086571 Registered since 2001

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, China, Luxembourg

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 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 11Business services 1Health and social care 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£353k latest income

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.toldbyanidiot.org
Emailinfo@toldbyanidiot.org
Phone02074074123
AddressTold by an Idiot co Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, LONDON, SE1 2HZ

Finances

£352,522 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£237,519£212,445
2022£428,384£378,236
2023£398,131£424,708
2024£317,647£267,507
2025£352,522£354,319

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED ON 10 JUNE, 1999. as amended on 26 Oct 2018 as amended on 18 Dec 2019

Trustees (11)

11trustees
47median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Told BY AN Idiot · 03786895 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 10/06/1999

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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