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Registered charity · Norwich

Maddermarket Theatre Trust Limited

Maddermarket Theatre Trust Limited is a registered charity (number 234993) based in Norwich, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by John Dixon since 2023. Latest income £620k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, for the public benefit, to the provision of activities that improve lives and connect communities through creative arts, and for that purpose to do any of the following as are necessary or...

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £620k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Norfolk
Website
www.maddermarket.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Maddermarket Theatre Trust Limited
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£620k£505k
  • 2024£765k£531k
  • 2023£544k£713k
Earlier years
  • 2021£143k£127k
  • 2020£288k£305k

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, for the public benefit, to the provision of activities that improve lives and connect communities through creative arts, and for that purpose to do any of the following as are necessary or expedient:(a) To provide an inclusive, safe, and caring environment by ensuring deep, lasting and respectful partnerships with our community.(b) To provide for the production of plays of Shakespeare, representative plays of other English dramatists or authors including modern plays, and translations of representative plays of foreign dramatists, ancient or modern; (c) To carry on and conduct the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, or any other theatre in or near Norwich, as a centre of education in the dramatic art, and for the encouragement of public interest therein; (d) To do all such other things as are incidental to or necessary for the attainment of the said objective.

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.

5 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

4
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 5Education/training 5

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 4Tech and media 1

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.
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£620k 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.

8.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2020

3
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
234993
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 AUG 1939AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 MAR 1955AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 NOV 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 JUL 2022 as amended on 31 Jul 2022
Companies House
Company number 00355871 · Active
Contact on the register
01603626560 · office@maddermarket.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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