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National Opera Studio

National Opera Studio is a registered charity (number 274755) based in London, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Nicholas Timothy Allan since 2019. Latest income £1.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

13 trustees
Income £1.2m (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: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Wandsworth, Leeds City, Cardiff, Scotland
Website: www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: National Opera Studio
Registered: 1978

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.2m£1.3m
2024£1.4m£1.3m
2023£1.1m£1.1m

Earlier years

2022£917k£929k
2021£1.2m£746k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Company is established to provide and carry on schools and training establishments for advancing education by providing instruction in, and resources for, the theory, practice, performance, production, presentation, direction, composition, and advancement of opera, music theatre, and the musical and theatrical arts in all their forms and to charge and receive fees therefor provided that all objects of the Company shall be of a charitable nature.

Grants received

5 grants · £338,735 total

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Top funders

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £171,316
Garfield Weston Foundation · £70,000 (2 grants)
The Linbury Trust · £49,419
CHK Foundation · £48,000

Most recent

The Linbury Trust £49,4192023-12-13
Garfield Weston Foundation £60,0002023-08-29
CHK Foundation £48,0002023-08-01
Garfield Weston Foundation £10,0002018-07-05
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £171,3162017-06-09

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.

13 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Nicholas Timothy Allan Chair since 2019
Oliver Mears since 2017
Stephen Langridge since 2019

11.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (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 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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 12Agriculture 1Business 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£1.2m 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.1 in 2021

12 from 9 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: 274755
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 7TH OCTOBER 1977 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON 30 MARCH 1994 as amended on 23 Sep 2015 as amended on 21 Jun 2023 as amended on 21 Jun 2023 as amended on 21 Jun 2023
Companies House: Company number 01332955 · Active
Contact on the register: 02088748811 · info@nationaloperastudio.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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