Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Sheffield

English Touring Opera Limited

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £3.7m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is English Touring Opera Limited. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment and 2 more
Where
Throughout England, Scotland
Website
www.englishtouringopera.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
English Touring Opera Limited
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.7m£3.6m
  • 2024£3.8m£4.3m
  • 2023£3.6m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.0m£3.5m
  • 2021£2.6m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 59%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING.

Grants received

14 grants · £2,772,423 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

Most recent

Board analysis for researchers

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.

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (3)

14
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 15Disability 15Education/training 15

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

Property 35Arts and leisure 25Professional services 8

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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£3.7m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.6 in 2021

17 from 14 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
279354
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1ST NOVEMBER 1979, AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION UPON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 9 JUNE 1992. AS AMENDED ON 26TH JUNE 1996 as amended on 14 Jun 2018
Companies House
Company number 01458501 · Active
Contact on the register
01144940404 · admin@englishtouringopera.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data