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Registered charity · London

The Shakespeare Globe Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £31m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.shakespearesglobe.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Shakespeare Globe Trust
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£31m£28m
  • 2024£29m£28m
  • 2023£30m£24m
Earlier years
  • 2022£19m£21m
  • 2021£14m£15m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY ENCOURAGING AND STIMULATING PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE DRAMATIC ART IN ALL ITS FORMS AND GENERALLY TO CULTIVATE AND IMPROVE PUBLIC TASTE IN SUCH ART AS A MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (SEE MEMORANDUM FOR FURTHER DETAILS).

Grants received

8 grants · £1,486,365 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.

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Most recent

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

8
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 10Education/training 10Accommodation/housing 1General Charitable Purposes 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 13Finance 5Education 2

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£31.5m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.2 in 2021

364 from 200 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
266916
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH DECEMBER 1973 AS AMENDED ON 11TH APRIL 1983 AND ON 8TH JUNE 1983 AND 18 FEBRUARY 2002 AND 4 MARCH 2005 AND 9 MAY 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 JUN 2016
Companies House
Company number 01152238 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7902 1400 · info@shakespearesglobe.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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