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Registered charity · Lancaster

The Duke's Playhouse Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Lancashire
Website
www.dukeslancaster.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Dukes Play House Limited
Registered
1973

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.9m
  • 2024£1.8m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.0m£824k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS OF DRAMA, LITERATURE, POETRY, OPERA, MIME, MUSIC AND BALLET WHETHER PRESENTED BY LIVING PERSONS ON THE STAGE OR BY FILMS, BROADCAST, TELEVISION OR OTHER FORMS OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)

Grants received

11 grants · £588,522 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 · £335,904 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £168,918 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £68,700 (2 grants)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation · £15,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8502023-04-28
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £141,0002022-09-22
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £75,0002021-10-22
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation £15,0002017-11-07
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £260,9042017-06-08
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.

9 trustees on the board

1.7y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 8Education/training 8Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 7Education 5Business services 1

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£1.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

30 from 28 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
501935
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 OCTOBER 1972 AS AMENDED 19 MARCH 1973, 21 JANUARY 1999, 11 JULY 2005 AND 12 FEBRUARY 2007.
Companies House
Company number 01077517 · Active
Contact on the register
01524 598500 · ask@dukeslancaster.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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