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The Barbican Centre Trust Limited

Support activities to performing arts

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Previous officers 53

  1. David Dennis Farnsworth 2024-2026 Director View profile
  2. Claire Spencer 2022-2024 Director View profile
  3. Jeffery Scott Holland 2021-2023 Director View profile
  4. Farmida Bi CBE 2021-2025 Director View profile
  5. David Kapur 2021-2025 Director View profile
  6. Tracey-Joy Harrison 2021-2023 Director View profile
  7. Thomas Richard Paul Bloxham MBE 2021-2024 Director View profile
  8. Thomas Charles Christopher Sleigh 2020-2024 Director View profile
  9. Tony Chambers 2019-2025 Director View profile
  10. Professor Geraldine Susan Brodie 2017-2020 Director View profile
  11. Kendall Andrea Langford 2017-2025 Director View profile
  12. Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson 2017-2020 Director View profile
  13. John Robert Porter 2017-2021 Director View profile
  14. Richard Philip Bernstein 2016-2021 Director View profile
  15. Steven Tredget 2016-2018 Director View profile
  16. Alasdair Hugh Nisbet 2015-2023 Director View profile
  17. John Ronald Bergius 2014-2016 Director View profile
  18. John Christopher Murray 2014-2021 Director View profile
  19. John Tomlinson 2014-2017 Director View profile
  20. Sir Michael Roger Gifford 2014-2021 Director View profile
  21. Torsten Thiele 2014-2018 Director View profile
  22. Barbara Jane Merry 2014-2017 Director View profile
  23. Lord Timothy Francis Clement-Jones CBE 2013-2016 Director View profile
  24. Emma Victoria Kane 2012-2021 Director View profile
  25. Professor Henrietta Louise Moore 2011-2021 Director View profile
  26. Stuart Godfrey Popham 2011-2014 Director View profile
  27. Catherine Sidony Mcguinness 2011-2014 Director View profile
  28. Anthony John Medniuk 2010-2014 Director View profile
  29. Lesley Alison King-Lewis 2009-2012 Director View profile
  30. Sir David Gerald Scholey 2009-2012 Director View profile
  31. Jeremy Paul Mayhew 2009-2011 Director View profile
  32. Graham Beattie Nicholson 2009-2013 Director View profile
  33. Sir Laurence Henry Philip Magnus 2009-2011 Director View profile
  34. John Vernon Harry Robins 2009-2010 Director View profile
  35. Christopher Thomas Bremner Purvis 2009-2014 Director View profile
  36. Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon 2008-2021 Director View profile
  37. John Alfred Barker 2006-2009 Director View profile
  38. Barbara Patricia Newman 2002-2006 Director View profile
  39. Michael John Cassidy 2000-2004 Director View profile
  40. Graham Edward Sheffield 1996-2009 Director View profile
  41. Joyce Carruthers Nash 1996-2002 Director View profile
  42. Sir John Tusa 1995-2008 Director View profile
  43. Geoffrey Clive Henry Lawson 1993-2000 Director View profile
  44. Richard Saunders 1993-1996 Director View profile
  45. Baroness Detta O'Cathain 1993-1995 Director View profile
  46. Brent Anthony Cornwall Lewis Crosby 1994 Director View profile
  47. Esmond Patrick Thomson Roney 1993 Director View profile
  48. Ebony Gale Ward 2023-2025 Secretary View profile
  49. Sandeep Dwesar 2008-2022 Secretary View profile
  50. Antony Joseph Gummett 2006-2009 Secretary View profile
  51. Anne Shirley Nash 2002-2006 Secretary View profile
  52. Andy Rose 2001-2002 Secretary View profile
  53. Richard Paul Monham 2001 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Support activities to performing arts
Incorporated
21/11/1985
Also a registered charity
The Barbican Centre Trust Limited

Grants received

8 grants · £1,477,817 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 · £1,344,217 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £113,600 (2 grants)
  • Mercers' Charitable Foundation · £20,000

Most recent

  • Mercers' Charitable Foundation £20,0002025-10-22
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £273,8032023-03-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £488,8322021-12-07
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £88,5592020-12-16
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £4,1912020-11-25
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

7 directors on the board

3.4y median 3.6y
average tenure
5.1y
longest tenure
0
directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (2)

Portfolio (5)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Business services 4Arts and leisure 3Finance 2Health and social care 2Retail and trade 2Agriculture 1Dormant 1Hospitality 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
01962950
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Accounts next due
31/12/2026
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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