The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Royal National Theatre

Registered charity 224223 Registered since 1963

Operates: China, Germany, Netherlands, United States, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

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 13General Charitable Purposes 2The 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 20Finance 8Other services 6

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£128.7m 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.

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

931 from 759 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.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Emaildparker@nationaltheatre.org.uk
Phone02074523361
AddressROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE, UPPER GROUND, LONDON, SE1 9PX

Finances

£128,700,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£56,300,000£51,600,000
2022£80,800,000£80,100,000
2023£89,000,000£90,900,000
2024£121,400,000£125,400,000
2025£128,700,000£121,600,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Other Charitable Activities

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, SO FAR AS OF A CHARITABLE NATURE, TO PROCURE AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE DRAMATIC ART IN ALL ITS FORMS AS A MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED THE 8 FEBRUARY 1963 AS AMENDED ON THE 10 MAY 1965 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20 MAY 1996, 26 MARCH 2001,15 JULY 2002, 26 SEPTEMBER 2005 AND 19 JULY 2010.

Trustees (13)

13trustees
59median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Royal National Theatre · 00749504 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 08/02/1963

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (5)

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