The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

National Opera Studio

Registered charity 274755 Registered since 1978

Operates: Wandsworth, Leeds City, Cardiff, Scotland

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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.

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

9
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.

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

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.nationaloperastudio.org.uk
Emailinfo@nationaloperastudio.org.uk
Phone02088748811
AddressNATIONAL OPERA STUDIO, 2 CHAPEL YARD, LONDON, SW18 4HZ

Finances

£1,150,720 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,207,849£746,370
2022£916,803£929,162
2023£1,075,674£1,112,842
2024£1,359,938£1,324,631
2025£1,150,720£1,279,225

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

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.

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

Trustees (13)

13trustees
59median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

National Opera Studio · 01332955 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 07/10/1977

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (6)

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