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Registered charity · Leicester

Leicester Drama Society Limited

Leicester Drama Society Limited is a registered charity (number 214249) based in Leicester, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £809k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Little Theatre (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £809k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Pauline Robertson.

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
Where
Leicestershire, Leicester City
Website
www.thelittletheatre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Leicester Drama Society,Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£809k£650k
  • 2024£715k£615k
  • 2023£672k£561k
Earlier years
  • 2022£444k£419k
  • 2021£342k£180k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND PRACTICES OF DRAMATIC ART AMONGST THE INHABITANTS OF LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE, AND TO PROMOTE AND CONDUCT THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES, LECTURES, CONCERTS AND SUCH OTHER EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES AS MAY TEND TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT.

Grants received

1 grant · £2,000 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

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

7
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 9Education/training 9

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 7

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£809k 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.

20.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 18.9 in 2021

8 from 6 in 2023
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
214249
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28 SEPTEMBER 1932, AS AMENDED 7 OCTOBER 1960, 9 MARCH 1972, 17 APRIL 1973, 6 APRIL 1982, 18 APRIL 1984, 25 MARCH 2002, 14 MARCH 2006, 9TH MARCH 2009 AND 22 FEBRUARY 2010. as amended on 15 Mar 2020
Companies House
Company number 00268828 · Active
Contact on the register
01162551302 · david.moore@thelittletheatre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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