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Registered charity · Wolverhampton

The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (1982) Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £11m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Wolverhampton
Website
www.grandtheatre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (1982) Limited
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£10m
  • 2024£9.9m£9.8m
  • 2023£10m£9.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.6m£7.5m
  • 2021£2.3m£2.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED 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 THERFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE

Grants received

3 grants · £63,500 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £53,500 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002013-10-28
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £43,5002008-07-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002007-02-09
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.

8 trustees on the board

2.1y median 1.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Accommodation/housing 1Disability 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 9Education 3Health and social care 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£10.9m 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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.3 in 2021

114 from 70 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
515154
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14 JUN 1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 FEB 1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 OCT 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 NOV 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 FEB 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 OCT 2016 as amended on 07 Feb 2020
Companies House
Company number 01731876 · Active
Contact on the register
01902573300 · karens@grandtheatre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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