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Registered charity · London

The RIO Centre (Dalston) Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Hackney
Website
www.riocinema.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The RIO Centre (Dalston) Limited
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.3m
  • 2023£936k£968k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.0m£935k
  • 2021£554k£597k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND EAST LONDON GENERALLY, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE AREA AFORESAID WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Grants received

2 grants · £196,885 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.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £140,461
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £56,424

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £140,4612021-10-15
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £56,4242010-05-12
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.

10 trustees on the board

4y median 6y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
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 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 11Arts and leisure 2Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.8 in 2021

30 from 25 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
277415
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12TH JANUARY 1979 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION 17 MARCH 2009
Companies House
Company number 01409066 · Active
Contact on the register
02072419410 · manager@riocinema.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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