THE THEATRICAL GUILD
Charity number: 206669
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Theatrical Guild is the charity supporting Backstage and Front of House theatre staff across the UK - offering a range of financial grants, access to counselling or therapy, mid-career training opportunities, welfare advice and industry signposting.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £171,983
Total expenditure: £158,360
People
12 Trustee(s)
12 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
Governance
Registration history:
- 22 September 1962: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- THEATRICAL LADIES GUILD (Working name)
- TTG (Working name)
- THE THEATRICAL LADIES GUILD OF CHARITY (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
- Financial Conduct Authority
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
12 Trustee(s)
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| Claire Carrie | Chair | 05 March 2012 |
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| Robin Rudd Townley | Trustee | 01 September 2025 |
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| Mark Christopher Hunt | Trustee | 18 July 2024 |
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| Rachel Lucy Kavanaugh | Trustee | 18 July 2024 |
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| Paul Frederick Stephen | Trustee | 01 December 2023 |
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| Andrew Stephen John Grant | Trustee | 01 September 2023 |
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| Cassandra Philippa Lyons | Trustee | 01 September 2023 |
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| Emma Rosalind Laugier Davies | Trustee | 01 April 2022 |
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| Alan Hatton | Trustee | 01 January 2019 |
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| Claire Cartwright | Trustee | 21 July 2015 |
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| Hugh Sachs | Trustee | 07 March 2012 |
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| Bridget Hayward | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £696.24k | £380.09k | £162.17k | £132.96k | £171.98k | |
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Total expenditure | £521.09k | £307.14k | £146.71k | £150.03k | £158.36k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £558.56k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £70.00k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £67.67k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £502.27k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £18.83k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £52.24k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2024 | 28 August 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 28 August 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 14 August 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 14 August 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 30 October 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 30 September 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 06 November 2022 | 6 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 08 September 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 07 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 07 October 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |