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Registered charity · London

The Actors' Benevolent Fund

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.actorstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Actors' Benevolent Fund
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£2.3m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE FUND’S OBJECTS (THE “OBJECTS”) ARE:“TO GIVE RELIEF, ADVICE, WELFARE OR ASSISTANCE IN SUCH FORM AS THE COUNCIL SHALL DETERMINE TO MEMBERS OF THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION (AS DEFINED IN THE ARTICLES) WHO CANNOT WORK BECAUSE OF ACCIDENT, ILLNESS OR OLD AGE, OR IN OTHER CASES AT THE COUNCIL’S DISCRETION, AND TO THEIR SPOUSES, PARTNERS 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.

15 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

15
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 15Disability 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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.

Health and social care 16Professional services 5Education 4

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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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

8 from 5 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
206524
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 OCT 1929AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 MAR 1932AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 MAY 1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUN 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 JUN 2023AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 16 NOV 2023
Companies House
Company number 00243374 · Active
Contact on the register
03032231110 · hello@actorstrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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