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Registered charity · London

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation is a registered charity (number 211775) based in London, governed by 17 trustees. Latest income £182m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

Also known as Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, ROH2, The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera (Charity Commission)

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £182m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.roh.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£182m£175m
  • 2024£182m£172m
  • 2023£171m£155m
Earlier years
  • 2022£133m£137m
  • 2021£84m£82m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION SO FAR AS SUCH PROMOTION AND ASSISTANCE SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE AND IN PARTICULAR, TO RAISE THE ARTISTIC TASTE OF THE COUNTRY, AND TO PROCURE AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE MUSICAL ART IN ALL ITS FORMS. (SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION).

Grants received

43 grants · £94,610,480 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.

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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.

17 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (5)

15
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 17Education/training 17Environment/conservation/heritage 17

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 42Tech and media 19Professional services 17

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£182.1m 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

1213 from 822 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
211775
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/04/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/05/1952AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/06/1958AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/1959AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/03/1963AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/07/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/05/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/09/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/01/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/02/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/05/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/04/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/02/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 01/09/2014 AS AMENDED ON 04 JUL 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 OCT 2021 as amended on 10 Jul 2025 as amended on 08 Oct 2025 as amended on 09 Jul 2026
Companies House
Company number 00480523 · Active
Contact on the register
02072129201 · Leah.Hurst@roh.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
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