Registered charity · Sunderland
Sunderland Theatre Company
- 11 trustees
- Income £42k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Mathew William ClarkeChair · since 2016
- Antoinette Margaret CockayneTrustee · since 2025
- Brian Thomas Waldock-LeachTrustee · since 2016
- Cara BarellaTrustee · since 2013
- Chantelle TaggartTrustee · since 2025
- Helen Jennifer SmurthwaiteTrustee · since 2019
- Jason Waldock-LeachTrustee · since 2022
- Jennifer Louise Elliott-FarrowTrustee · since 2016
- Kristan Mark BaileyTrustee · since 2025
- Lisa SmithTrustee · since 2019
- Rebecca CrackettTrustee · since 2020
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, Amateur Sport
- Where
- Sunderland
- Website
- www.sunderlandtheatrecompany.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2002
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£42k£26k
- 2024£24k£21k
- 2023£16k£15k
Earlier years
- 2022£16k£17k
- 2021£5k£4k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS AND TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE ARTS;B) TO ASSIST AND FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE
Grants received
1 grant · £10,000 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000
Most recent
- 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.
11 trustees on the board
- Mathew William Clarke Chair since 2016
- Antoinette Margaret Cockayne since 2025
- Brian Thomas Waldock-Leach since 2016
- Cara Barella since 2013
- Chantelle Taggart since 2025
- Helen Jennifer Smurthwaite since 2019
- Jennifer Louise Elliott-Farrow since 2016
- Jason Waldock-Leach since 2022
- Kristan Mark Bailey since 2025
- Lisa Smith since 2019
- Rebecca Crackett since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Mathew William Clarke Chair since 2016
- Brian Thomas Waldock-Leach since 2016
- Cara Barella since 2013
- Helen Jennifer Smurthwaite since 2019
- Jennifer Louise Elliott-Farrow since 2016
- Lisa Smith since 2019
- Rebecca Crackett since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Mathew William Clarke Chair since 2016
- Antoinette Margaret Cockayne since 2025
- Brian Thomas Waldock-Leach since 2016
- Cara Barella since 2013
- Chantelle Taggart since 2025
- Helen Jennifer Smurthwaite since 2019
- Jennifer Louise Elliott-Farrow since 2016
- Jason Waldock-Leach since 2022
- Kristan Mark Bailey since 2025
- Lisa Smith since 2019
- Rebecca Crackett since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- 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
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1092896
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 07/06/2002AS AMENDED ON 06/09/2013
- Contact on the register
- 07957460822 · stcosecretary@hotmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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