Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Birmingham

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Limited

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Limited is a registered charity (number 223660) based in Birmingham, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by Andy Street CBE since 2024. Latest income £15m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as The Birmingham REP, The REP (Charity Commission)

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.

Official record Charity Commission · updated 25th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password

Network

The large node is Birmingham Repertory Theatre Limited. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

People on this board also govern

Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Croatia, Germany, Italy and more
Website
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Birmingham Repertory Theatre,Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£15m
  • 2024£15m£16m
  • 2023£14m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£13m£10m
  • 2021£6.4m£4.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

(1) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING, FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND A HIGH STANDARD OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR DRAMATIC ART IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND IN SUCH OTHER PLACES IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM TO BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE INTELLECTUAL WEAL OF THE PUBLIC(2) TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN STUDENTS IN DRAMA, MUSIC, PAINTING AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTS, AND TO PROMOTE THE RECOGNITION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN STUDENTS BY THE INSTITUTION AND PRESENTATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, GRANTS, MEDALS OR OTHER PRIZES OR BENEFACTIONSFOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

Grants received

11 grants · £7,292,456 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £4,280,396 (3 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £1,867,698
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £761,112 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £212,000
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £150,000

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £1,867,6982022-10-20
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,867,6982021-12-13
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £150,0002021-11-05
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £545,0002021-10-27
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £746,1122018-03-26
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.

14 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

12
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 13Education/training 13Accommodation/housing 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 19Business services 8Construction 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£15.3m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.0 in 2021

227 from 109 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
223660
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 JANUARY 1935 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 27 APRIL 1955, 10 NOVEMBER 1975, 28 JULY 1998 AND 11 OCTOBER 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 NOV 2010 as amended on 25 Oct 2007 as amended on 25 Feb 2025 as amended on 13 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 00295910 · Active
Contact on the register
01212452000 · rep.accounts@birmingham-rep.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data