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The Marlowe Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Kent
Website
marlowetheatre.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Marlowe Trust
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£17m
  • 2024£15m£15m
  • 2023£16m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£11m
  • 2021£4.9m£4.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:2.1.1 THE PROMOTION OF ARTS AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY), BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO, PERFORMANCES OF, AND PARTICIPATION IN THE PERFORMANCES OF, THEATRE AND DRAMATIC ARTS, AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES;2.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY), IN RELATION TO THEATRE AND DRAMATIC ARTS, AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES;2.1.3 THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH THEATRE AND DRAMATIC ARTS, AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEED OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY; AND2.1.4 TO PROVIDE FOR THE RECREATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO THEM IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS IN LIFE.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE “SOCIALLY EXCLUDED” MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: HEALTH, DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT, YOUTH OR OLD AGE, DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT.

Grants received

4 grants · £5,473,836 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £4,950,000
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £500,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £23,836 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £500,0002026-02-23
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,950,0002023-12-05
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £17,8772021-01-06
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £5,9592021-01-06
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.

9 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 9Education/training 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 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 18Education 8Finance 3

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£17.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.6 in 2021

235 from 164 in 2021
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
1179882
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 FEB 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10 SEP 2018 as amended on 07 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 11188407 · Active
Contact on the register
01227862268 · info@marlowetheatre.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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