The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Royal National Theatre Foundation

Registered charity 271706 Registered since 1976

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

7 trustees on the board

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Accommodation/housing 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 5Business services 1Other services 1

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£394k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

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

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

Finances

£394,309 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£578,946£3,815,658
2022£1,294,725£191,358
2023£380,354£833,182
2024£391,906£830,535
2025£394,309£726,795

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF DRAMA AND TO PROMOTE THEIR APPRECIATION OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN DRAMA IN ALL ITS ARTISTIC FORMS AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE. TO RELIEVE PAST OR PRESENT EMPLOYEES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 6TH JULY 1976 AS VARIED BY DEED DATED 26 FEBRUARY 1990

Trustees (7)

7trustees
62median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (4)

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