Registered charity · London
Good Chance Theatre
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Stephen DaldryChair · since 2016
- Anirudh MathurTrustee · since 2018
- Gemma WhiteTrustee · since 2022
- Hiran AbeysekeraTrustee · since 2025
- Jeffrey CulpepperTrustee · since 2019
- Majid Akhondzadeh-Darjazi MrTrustee · since 2021
- Natalia KaliadaTrustee · since 2017
- Phoebe Elisabeth ReithTrustee · since 2024
- Sonia FriedmanTrustee · since 2016
- Susan WitherowTrustee · 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Throughout London, France, Mexico, United States and more
- Website
- goodchance.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Good Chance Theatre
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.5m£1.1m
- 2024£1.3m£1.1m
- 2023£1.8m£1.8m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£2.1m
- 2021£1.2m£1.1m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE AND SINGING, PARTICULARLY BY FACILITATING PARTICIPATION BY THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PEOPLE). TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND CULTIVATE A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UN CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS AND WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ARTICLE 27) BY:(A) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS AND:(B) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.
Grants received
6 grants · £585,000 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
- Comic Relief · £400,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £75,000
- Rothschild Foundation · £50,000
- Pears Foundation · £25,000
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch · £25,000
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Stephen Daldry Chair since 2016
- Anirudh Mathur since 2018
- Gemma White since 2022
- Hiran Abeysekera since 2025
- Jeffrey Culpepper since 2019
- Majid Akhondzadeh-Darjazi Mr since 2021
- Natalia Kaliada since 2017
- Phoebe Elisabeth Reith since 2024
- Sonia Friedman since 2016
- Susan Witherow since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Stephen Daldry Chair since 2016
- Anirudh Mathur since 2018
- Jeffrey Culpepper since 2019
- Natalia Kaliada since 2017
- Sonia Friedman since 2016
- Susan Witherow since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Anirudh Mathur since 2018
- Gemma White since 2022
- Hiran Abeysekera since 2025
- Jeffrey Culpepper since 2019
- Majid Akhondzadeh-Darjazi Mr since 2021
- Natalia Kaliada since 2017
- Phoebe Elisabeth Reith since 2024
- Sonia Friedman since 2016
- Susan Witherow since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Stephen Daldry Chair since 2016
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.
Gaps to watch
- 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
4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1166833
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 JAN 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 APR 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 09952411 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02079222922 · naomi@goodchance.org.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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