Registered charity · Leicester
Leicester Arts Centre Limited
Leicester Arts Centre Limited is a registered charity (number 701078) based in Leicester, governed by 11 trustees and chaired by ALI Sinclair. Latest income £2.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.
Also known as Phoenix Arts (Charity Commission)
- 11 trustees
- Income £2.4m (2025)
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Network
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Who leads it
- ALI SinclairChair
- Adam ClarkeTrustee · since 2023
- Catherine Jane KerseyTrustee · since 2019
- Colin Geoffrey SharpeTrustee · since 2015
- Dilip KaviTrustee · since 2023
- Dr James RussellTrustee · since 2026
- Kaaeed MamujeeTrustee · since 2023
- Kamlesh PurohitTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Justin SmithTrustee · since 2023
- Suzanne Melody Bradley Overton-EdwardsTrustee · since 2013
- William WellsTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
- Where
- Leicestershire, Leicester City, Rutland
- Website
- www.phoenix.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Leicester Arts Centre Limited
- Registered
- 1989
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.4m£2.9m
- 2024£2.5m£2.7m
- 2023£5.5m£1.7m
Earlier years
- 2022£5.3m£1.6m
- 2021£2.0m£1.4m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION GENERALLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE PERFORMING ARTS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, FILM, SINGING, MUSIC, POETRY AND THE PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF ETHNIC EVENTS AND EVENTS WITHIN ANY COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMME AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.
Grants received
10 grants · £1,288,047 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,007,878 (5 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £250,000
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £30,169 (4 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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
- ALI Sinclair Chair
- Adam Clarke since 2023
- Catherine Jane Kersey since 2019
- Colin Geoffrey Sharpe since 2015
- Dilip Kavi since 2023
- Dr James Russell since 2026
- Kaaeed Mamujee since 2023
- Kamlesh Purohit since 2025
- Professor Justin Smith since 2023
- Suzanne Melody Bradley Overton-Edwards since 2013
- William Wells since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Catherine Jane Kersey since 2019
- Colin Geoffrey Sharpe since 2015
- Suzanne Melody Bradley Overton-Edwards since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Adam Clarke since 2023
- Dilip Kavi since 2023
- Dr James Russell since 2026
- Kaaeed Mamujee since 2023
- Kamlesh Purohit since 2025
- Professor Justin Smith since 2023
- Suzanne Melody Bradley Overton-Edwards since 2013
- William Wells since 2025
Portfolio (3)
- ALI Sinclair Chair
- Catherine Jane Kersey since 2019
- Colin Geoffrey Sharpe since 2015
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
1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.5 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 701078
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/07/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/08/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/01/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/07/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 02276987 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01162422800 · hello@phoenix.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 25th 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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