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Registered charity · Bristol

Bristol OLD VIC and Theatre Royal Trust Limited

Bristol OLD VIC and Theatre Royal Trust Limited is a registered charity (number 228235) based in Bristol, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £7.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £7.6m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Bristol City
Website
www.bristololdvic.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bristol OLD VIC and Theatre Royal Trust Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.6m£9.3m
  • 2024£6.5m£8.2m
  • 2023£5.8m£7.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.6m£6.8m
  • 2021£3.8m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS; AND 2) TO CONSERVE, DEVELOP AND ENHANCE THE PREMISES KNOWN AS THE THEATRE ROYAL, BRISTOL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AS A WORKING THEATRE AND A PLACE WITH HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS.

Grants received

22 grants · £7,284,800 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,734,700 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £2,500,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,250,983
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £220,000 (2 grants)
  • The Linbury Trust · £195,000

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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.

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

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 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Education/training 2Disability 1Religious Activities 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 18Other services 5Business services 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.

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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£7.6m 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.3 in 2021

221 from 233 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
228235
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 APR 1963AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 NOV 1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 DEC 1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 MAR 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 JUL 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 DEC 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 JUN 2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06 APR 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 NOV 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 NOV 2016
Companies House
Company number 00756007 · Active
Contact on the register
01179493993 · tickets@bristololdvic.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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