Registered charity · Manchester
Waters Edge Arts LTD
- 8 trustees
- Income £441k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Akintayo Olutosin Ayoola AkinbodeTrustee · since 2021
- Cllr Joanna Rachel MidgleyTrustee · since 2024
- Cllr John HackingTrustee · since 2024
- Eamonn O'Neal OBE DLTrustee · since 2025
- Paula Louise RabbittTrustee · since 2018
- Philip Alan KolvinTrustee · since 2023
- Richard Foster MorganTrustee · since 2023
- Rupert Sinclair HillTrustee · 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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Manchester City, Salford City, Trafford
- Website
- www.edgetheatre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Waters Edge Arts LTD
- Registered
- 2009
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£441k£513k
- 2024£444k£453k
- 2023£453k£454k
Earlier years
- 2022£613k£525k
- 2021£282k£140k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY THEATRE, BY ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING INVOLVEMENT IN THEATRE AND RELATED ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES BY ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY THOSE DEEMED AS DISADVANTAGED, VULNERABLE OR HARD TO REACH.
Grants received
16 grants · £1,018,110 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 · £440,214 (6 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £408,580 (4 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £110,000 (3 grants)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation · £37,916
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £20,400
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- 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.
8 trustees on the board
- Akintayo Olutosin Ayoola Akinbode since 2021
- Cllr John Hacking since 2024
- Cllr Joanna Rachel Midgley since 2024
- Eamonn O'Neal OBE DL since 2025
- Paula Louise Rabbitt since 2018
- Philip Alan Kolvin since 2023
- Richard Foster Morgan since 2023
- Rupert Sinclair Hill since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Paula Louise Rabbitt since 2018
- Rupert Sinclair Hill since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Akintayo Olutosin Ayoola Akinbode since 2021
- Cllr John Hacking since 2024
- Paula Louise Rabbitt since 2018
- Philip Alan Kolvin since 2023
- Richard Foster Morgan since 2023
- Rupert Sinclair Hill since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Cllr Joanna Rachel Midgley since 2024
- Eamonn O'Neal OBE DL since 2025
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1128608
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 NOVEMBER 2008 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 17 FEBRUARY 2009
- Companies House
- Company number 06758847 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01612829776 · info@edgetheatre.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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