WAKEFIELD THEATRE TRUST

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. WAKEFIELD THEATRE TRUST 2001-01-03 → present
2. WAKEFIELD METROPOLITAN FESTIVAL COMPANY LIMITED 1974-06-13 → 2001-01-03

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have reviewed the circumstances of the Wakefield Theatre Trust and group. Having considered the forecast financial information and the very strong relationships with funders and the local authority, the Trustees consider that adequate resources continue to be available to fund the activities of the Trust and the group for the foreseeable future. The Trustees are of the view that Trust and group are a going concern.”

Group structure

1. WAKEFIELD THEATRE TRUST · parent
   1. TRW Productions Limited · United Kingdom · develops, produces and runs productions for Wakefield Theatre Trust.

Significant events

• “During 2024/25 Theatre Royal Wakefield continued to actively serve our local community with an exciting creative programme of performances and participation projects.”
• “A particular highlight of the year was bringing together community groups to jointly create a performance for The Hatchling, a city-wide event in central Wakefield”
• “During the prior year a VAT review took place, which confirmed the Trust's status as being partially exempt. ... during this year we successfully claimed a refund of overpaid tax.”
• “At year end Theatre Royal Wakefield has delivered significant benefits to our local communities, in addition we hold our full reserves and have been able to again add to our Matcham Designated Fund to invest in our Grade II* listed building.”
• “2024/25 was the second year of our new three year business plan for 2023-2026, which focuses on sustainability, creative programme development, engagement with local communities and developing the theatre for the 21st century.”
• “Our Autumn season opened with our youth musical, Evita. It was a fantastic production and gave the talented young cast valuable training opportunities to work with a professional creative team.”
• “The highlight of the festive season, and indeed the year, for many people in the Wakefield district is our annual pantomime. Cinderella was a brilliantly successful pantomime for the Theatre and was seen by 28,712 people, across 64 performances”
• “Our Year 2024 saw us integrating our regular groups for the first time to take part in The Hatchling, a city-wide event.”
• “The Leftbehinds toured to Wakefield secondary schools in spring 2025- it was watched by 557 students from four schools.”
• “During the year Speak Up continued to be delivered in five Wakefield secondary schools in partnership with the National Theatre, the 2024/25 academic year is the final year of this three year project - which ends in summer 2025.”
• “In May 2025 our Executive Director co-founded the Local Theatre Touring Alliance, a new, sector-led initiative formed in response to the increasing fragility of professional touring theatre in towns and smaller cities across the UK.”
• “In summer 2025 Theatre Royal Wakefield has commenced a data project with consultants Data Culture Change.”
• “During the year we will develop a new three-year Business Plan for the period 2026-2029.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +21.6%

  £1,813,864 → £2,206,270

• Cash

  +25.5%

  £967,604 → £1,214,133

• Net assets

  +8.6%

  £2,108,680 → £2,288,988

• Employees

  -3.1%

  32 → 31

• Wages

  +2.6%

  £706,327 → £724,855

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers