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Registered charity · Warwickshire

The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon

The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon is a registered charity (number 212481) based in Warwickshire, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Shriti Vinodkant Vadera since 2021. Latest income £82m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Royal Shakespeare Company - R S C (Charity Commission)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £82m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, United States, Scotland
Website
www.rsc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£82m£84m
  • 2024£92m£88m
  • 2023£68m£68m
Earlier years
  • 2022£40m£43m
  • 2021£36m£35m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO KEEP ALIVE THE MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE BY THE PRESENTATION OF HIS PLAYS. (SEE ALSO ARTICLE II OF THE CHARTER OF INCORPORATION).

Grants received

44 grants · £103,319,286 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £31,269,411 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £30,519,412 (2 grants)
  • Gatsby Charitable Foundation · £25,577,500 (10 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £8,360,000 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £4,212,025 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation £70,0002024-11-13
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £161,5182024-03-04
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £327,0402024-03-04
  • Rothschild Foundation £150,0002024-02-28
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £749,9992024-02-07
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.

3.9y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 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.

Education 5Property 5Arts and leisure 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£82.0m latest income
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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 10.1 in 2021

1029 from 901 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
212481
Status
Registered
Governing document
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION DATED 21 JUNE 1979 AS AMENDED BY ORDERS IN COUNCIL DATED 11 OCTOBER 2000 AND 6 MARCH 2007.
Contact on the register
01789296655 · info@rsc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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