The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

English National Ballet

Registered charity 214005 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England

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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.

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 12Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 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 19Professional services 2Property 2

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£25.4m 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.

6.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.1 in 2021

237 from 198 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.ballet.org.uk
Emailcomments@ballet.org.uk
Phone02075902926
Address41 Hopewell Square, London, E14 0SY

Finances

£25,429,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£19,801,000£13,383,000
2022£21,257,000£19,050,000
2023£21,480,000£20,126,000
2024£22,936,000£21,162,000
2025£25,429,000£25,582,000

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Other Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER EDUCATION IN AND KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS OF BALLET, OPERA, MIME, DRAMA, MUSIC, AND SINGING AND SIMILAR AND ANCILLARY ARTS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED THE 10TH SEPTEMBER 1962 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 15 NOVEMBER 1962, 10 SEPTEMBER 1980, 17 NOVEMBER 1988, 18 MAY 1989, 25 JANUARY 1995 AND 21 JUNE 2006 as amended on 03 Dec 2019 as amended on 07 Mar 2022 as amended on 24 Jun 2024

Trustees (12)

12trustees
57median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

English National Ballet · 00735040 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 10/09/1962

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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