Registered charity · Wokingham
Wokingham Theatre
- 11 trustees
- Income £281k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Claire Joanna LawrenceChair · since 2024
- Christopher John WestgateTrustee · since 2025
- Diane Margaret HoggTrustee · since 2018
- Emma Louise MerchantTrustee · since 2025
- Gary ReesTrustee · since 2024
- Matthew Frazer EdwardsTrustee · since 2026
- Neil GoodhandTrustee · since 2020
- Sophie Jane PierceTrustee · since 2023
- Sophie VallelyTrustee · since 2024
- Stephen Edward JoyTrustee · since 2020
- Thomas William Atkinson-JoyTrustee · since 2026
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
- Wokingham
- Website
- www.wokinghamtheatre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Wokingham Theatre
- Registered
- 1985
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£281k£182k
- 2024£270k£186k
- 2023£223k£162k
Earlier years
- 2022£193k£162k
- 2021£49k£127k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, INDLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.
Grants received
1 grant · £10,000 total360Giving 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £10,000
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Claire Joanna Lawrence Chair since 2024
- Christopher John Westgate since 2025
- Diane Margaret Hogg since 2018
- Emma Louise Merchant since 2025
- Gary Rees since 2024
- Matthew Frazer Edwards since 2026
- Neil Goodhand since 2020
- Sophie Jane Pierce since 2023
- Sophie Vallely since 2024
- Stephen Edward Joy since 2020
- Thomas William Atkinson-Joy since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Diane Margaret Hogg since 2018
- Stephen Edward Joy since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Christopher John Westgate since 2025
- Diane Margaret Hogg since 2018
- Emma Louise Merchant since 2025
- Gary Rees since 2024
- Matthew Frazer Edwards since 2026
- Neil Goodhand since 2020
- Sophie Jane Pierce since 2023
- Sophie Vallely since 2024
- Stephen Edward Joy since 2020
- Thomas William Atkinson-Joy since 2026
Portfolio (1)
- Claire Joanna Lawrence Chair since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 292448
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24TH JULY 1985 AND RULE NUMBER 1 ADOPTED UNDER CLAUSE 22 ON 16 JULY 1999
- Companies House
- Company number 01933168 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01189890395 · admin@wokinghamtheatre.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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.
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