Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Merseyside

Shakespeare North Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is Shakespeare North Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Knowsley
Website
shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shakespeare North Trust
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£3.8m
  • 2024£3.0m£3.4m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£368k£262k
  • 2020£9k£5k

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE DRAMATIC ARTS GENERALLY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF A THEATRE AND FACILITIES FOR THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCES;TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF PRESCOT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE HOLDING OF EXHIBITIONS.

Grants received

7 grants · £1,102,555 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 12

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 18Education 13Business services 5

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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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.
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.7 in 2020

81 from 61 in 2023
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
1120641
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES 14TH AUGUST 2007
Companies House
Company number 05923469 · Active
Contact on the register
0151 433 7156
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data