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Registered charity · Middlesex

Royal Variety Charity

Royal Variety Charity is a registered charity (number 206451) based in Middlesex, governed by 2 trustees. Latest income £4.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £4.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.royalvarietycharity.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.9m£4.6m
  • 2024£3.9m£4.2m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.2m£3.1m
  • 2021£2.9m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PERFORMERS AND ENTERTAINERS, AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENTERTAINMENT PROFESSION ("ENTERTAINMENT ARTISTES") AND THEIR SURVIVING PARTNERS, SPOUSES AND DEPENDANTS

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.

2 trustees on the board

11y median 11y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

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company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 2General Charitable Purposes 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 16.2 in 2020

51 from 58 in 2020
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
206451
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES ADOPTED 04/04/1963 AS AMENDED ON 21/05/1970 AS AMENDED ON 06/05/1971 AS AMENDED ON 10/10/1974 AS AMENDED ON 30/11/1978 AS AMENDED ON 15/03/2013 AS AMENDED ON 26/06/2015 AS AMENDED ON 29 JAN 2016
Contact on the register
02088988164 · enquiries@royalvarietycharity.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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