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Registered charity · Plymouth

Theatre Royal (Plymouth) Limited

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Devon, Plymouth City
Website
www.theatreroyal.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Theatre Royal (Plymouth) Limited
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£22m
  • 2024£17m£19m
  • 2023£17m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£11m
  • 2021£7.9m£7.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) 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, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC (II) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES FOR ANY OF THE PURPOSES SET OUT IN (I) OR (II) PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Grants received

25 grants · £7,500,932 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 · £3,114,626 (3 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £2,414,626 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,191,812 (6 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £340,546 (2 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £115,380

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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.

16 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

16
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 15Education/training 15Amateur Sport 1Disability 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 24Professional services 4Tech and media 3

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£23.4m 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 6.0 in 2021

166 from 153 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
284545
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 MAY 1981, AMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS PASSED 3 DEC 1981, 25 MAR 1997, 7 NOV 2002, 21 OCT 2004, 30 JAN 2007 AND 27 SEPT 2010.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 NOV 2017 as amended on 12 May 2020 as amended on 12 May 2020 as amended on 07 Mar 2023
Companies House
Company number 01560651 · Active
Contact on the register
01752230328 · emma.tayler@theatreroyal.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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