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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle Theatre Royal Trust Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £16m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Recreation
Where
Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Website
www.theatre.royal.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Newcastle Theatre Royal Trust Limited
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16m£15m
  • 2024£16m£16m
  • 2023£17m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.3m£8.1m
  • 2021£4.5m£4.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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 AND TO FORMULATE,PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE PROVIDING THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Grants received

6 grants · £967,000 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.

11 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 11Education/training 11Recreation 11

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 8Professional services 6Other services 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£16.3m 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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2021

229 from 150 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
504473
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/06/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/02/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/07/2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/2015 as amended on 30 Jul 2019 as amended on 13 Dec 2019
Companies House
Company number 01217427 · Active
Contact on the register
01912442500 · colin.johnston@theatreroyal.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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