Registered charity · Norwich
Rialto
- 4 trustees
- Income £24k (2025)
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
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.therialto.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1987
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£24k£23k
- 2024£13k£40k
- 2023£47k£41k
Earlier years
- 2022£40k£38k
- 2021£67k£28k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(1) TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE READING OF POETRY, LITERATURE AND CRITICISM AND TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE APPRECIATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THESE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT AND WELL BEING OF THE COMMUNITY. (2) TO TEACH AND INSTRUCT PEOPLE IN THE CRAFT OF WRITING. (3) TO PUBLISH IN MAGAZINES AND BOOKS NEW VERSE BY AN NEW TRANSLATIONS OF THE WORK OF ESTABLISHED POETS. (4) TO EDIT AND PUBLISH, THREE TIMES A YEAR, A MAGAZINE OF POETRY. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSES (1) TO (4) OF TRUST DEED)
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Colin Hughes since 2023
- Michael John Mackmin
- Matthew Howard since 2017
- Nicholas Stone
Trustees past 6 years
- Matthew Howard since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
Portfolio (2)
- Colin Hughes since 2023
- Matthew Howard since 2017
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.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 297553
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 12TH MARCH 1987AS AMENDED ON 16 APR 2018
- Contact on the register
- 07754736443 · michael@therialto.co.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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