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Registered charity · London

Sadler's Wells Trust Limited

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £43m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
City Of Westminster, Islington
Website
www.sadlerswells.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sadler's Wells Trust Limited
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£43m£38m
  • 2024£42m£40m
  • 2023£31m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2022£23m£25m
  • 2021£16m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY ENCOURAGING THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE DRAMATIC ARTS ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING, PRESENTING, PRODUCING, ORGANISING, MANAGING AND CONDUCTING PERFORMANCES OF CLASSICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PLAYS, OPERA, BALLET, FILMS AND CONCERTS, IMPROVING AND PRESERVING AMENITIES FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Grants received

19 grants · £3,655,260 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

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

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (16)

15
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 16Arts/culture/heritage/science 15General Charitable Purposes 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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 86Finance 26Professional 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.

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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£43.3m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.5 in 2021

384 from 229 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.
13%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
279884
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 APRIL 1980 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 25 SEPTEMBER 1997,19 JUNE 2002, 27 JULY 2005 AND 17/7/13
Companies House
Company number 01488786 · Active
Contact on the register
02078638034 · artisticdirector@sadlerswells.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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