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Registered charity · London

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Limited

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £6.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.lyric.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Limited
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.7m£8.1m
  • 2024£6.4m£7.4m
  • 2023£4.9m£6.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.0m£4.9m
  • 2021£3.6m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR OF PERSONS WHO LIVE OR WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND IN THE WEST OF LONDON IN THE ARTS INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING THE ARTS OF DRAMA BALLET MIME DANCE MUSIC SINGING AND OPERA AND FOR SUCH PURPOSE TO ESTABLISH OPERATE AND MANAGE AND ADMINISTER THE LYRIC THEATRE (INCLUDING THE MAIN AUDITORIUM STUDIO THEATRE AND FOYERS THEREOF) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR PERSONS WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM IF SUCH PROVISION IS IN THE INTERESTS OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958.

Grants received

26 grants · £3,349,893 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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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.

16 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (4)

15
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 16Education/training 2Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 17Arts and leisure 13Tech and media 10

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£6.7m 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 9.2 in 2021

103 from 82 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
278518
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14TH AUGUST 1979, AMENDED 13TH MARCH 2002 AND 21ST APRIL 2004 as amended on 11 Dec 2024
Companies House
Company number 01443809 · Active
Contact on the register
02087416822 · enquiries@lyric.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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