NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The financial statements are prepared on the basis that the Group and company is a going concern. The future operations of the charitable company and group are dependent on the continued financial support of the company's principal funder, the generation of future operating surpluses, receipts from the theatre tax credit regime and sufficient ongoing operating cashflow.”

Group structure

1. NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND · parent
   1. National Theatre of Scotland Productions Limited 100% · Scotland · Theatre Production
   2. Strange Case of J&H Limited 100% · Scotland · Film Production

Significant events

• “Produced 14 Productions and events, 4 of which were World Premieres”
• “Presented 232 live performances for an audience of 38,951”
• “Toured to 84 venues across Scotland and 8 internationally, including visiting 50 schools across 15 local authority areas of Scotland”
• “Contracted 31 writers, 33 directors and 154 performers”
• “Delivered 28 development workshops of new plays/projects, contracting 255 artists, 88 of whom were new to the organisation”
• “Delivered 45 accessible performances”
• “Hosted 18 First Nights events connecting with 338 people attending theatre for the first time.”
• “Hosted a Day for Drama at Rockvilla attended by 65 teachers from schools across Scotland.”
• “Reached 467 young people through our Creative Careers events at Rockvilla and 204 in schools and colleges across Scotland”
• “Won a Scotsman Fringe First for June Carter Cash: The Woman Her Music and Me, a UK Theatre Awards 2024 for Best Design for Dracula: Mina's Reckoning, and Audio Production Award 2024 for Best Narrator for Finding Seaglass”
• “National Theatre of Scotland said goodbye to Executive Director Brenna Hobson after 7 years and welcomed Liam Sinclair as new Executive Director and Co-Chief Executive in September.”
• “In 2024/25 we commissioned three new plays and two new musicals.”
• “We appointed three new Fellowship roles (Producing, Dramaturgy, Directing) from a poll of 83 applications.”
• “We welcomed Gus Gowland as our first Resident Composer.”

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

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -59.4%

  £1,255,695 → £509,848

• Cash

  -18.8%

  £1,175,462 → £954,663

• Net assets

  -2.6%

  £5,202,006 → £5,065,811

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

• Profit before tax

  +60.9%

  -£1,737,488 → -£678,558

• Wages

  -7.9%

  £3,068,462 → £2,827,157

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