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Arts Charities That specialise in Performing art

Discover 4,117 Arts charities that specialise in Performing art. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,117
Charities
£6,747,187,095
Total Income
£677,701
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Arnolfini Gallery CIO

Arts, Charitable activities, Heritage

The education of the public through the promotion and presentation of contemporary art, through exhibition, performance, dance, film, literature, poetry and music supported by an extensive education programme.

Latest Income: £1,560,647
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
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Polish Social And Cultural Association

Arts, Heritage, Leisure

Promotion of Polish Culture, education, hIstory, arts, literature, drama. Maintaining Polish Library and Theatre. Maintaining mutli purpose building to provide recreation facilities, offices, restaurant .

Latest Income: £1,552,918
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Benslow Music Trust

Arts

The Trust's main activity is its educational work for adult amateur musicians, through its year-round course programme and related musical activities at its residential centre in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Latest Income: £1,541,950
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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British Record Industry Trust

Arts, Charitable activities

Founded by the recorded music industry in 1989, The BRIT Trust works to promote diversity and inclusion in the UK by empowering people of all backgrounds through music and the creative arts. The BRIT Trust makes donations to support education and wellbeing activities that inspire people to realise their full potential and life chances, whatever their abilities, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

Latest Income: £1,537,466
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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English Folk Dance And Song Society

Arts

A centre of excellence for the study, practice and dissemination of traditional English Folk song, dance and music at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and Cecil Sharp House. Providing national and local outreach services to enable and increase access, celebrate diversity and promote equality

Latest Income: £1,535,587
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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October Gallery Trust

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Heritage, Research, Society

The October Gallery is an arts complex dedicated to the appreciation of the transvangarde - the cross-cultural avant garde. The Gallery hosts exhibitions of art from around the world, talks on art and science, poetry readings, theatre and dance performances. Support is from sales of art, rental of the Gallery's unique facilities, grants, donations, staff, volunteers and friends.

Latest Income: £1,515,395
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Greenwich Theatre Limited

Arts, Economic and community development, Education, Society

Greenwich Theatre is one of Londons premiere Off-West End theatres, offering high-quality, accessible, affordable theatre to the many diverse communities of London and Kent. The theatre also operates an Artist Development Programme, working with people from around London and the UK to raise levels of aspiration, self-esteem, creativity and employment prospects.

Latest Income: £1,480,733
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Theatr Brycheiniog Cyf

Arts

Theatre/Arts Venue

Latest Income: £1,442,176
Areas of Operation: Powys
Status: Registered
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The Royal Society Of Musicians Of Great Britain

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Society, a charity for musicians run by musicians, provides grants and support to professional musicians and their families in need because of accident, illness or old age whether or not they are members. Founded in 1738 as the Fund for Decay'd Musicians, early members included Handel, Arne, Boyce and Sammartini. Today it maintains its tradition of responding swiftly to needs of colleagues.

Latest Income: £1,420,536
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Theatres Trust Charitable Fund

Arts, Economic and community development

Providing leadership and strategic thinking, The Theatres Trust advises in planning, regeneration and development, architecture and design, heritage, and theatre. We enable better planning to secure, improve and achieve sustainability for new and existing theatre buildings and protect theatre use. The Theatres Trust also provides financial assistance for theatres through grants.

Latest Income: £1,401,104
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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National Dance Company Wales

Arts

The principal activity of the company throughout the year was that of the National Dance Company Wales, which it undertakes in pursuit of its charitable objective of advancing the arts and education.

Latest Income: £1,381,868
Areas of Operation: Germany
Status: Registered
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Halsway Manor Society Limited

Arts

To promote and support the practice of the traditional folk arts, especially as practised in England. This includes traditional dance, music, song, folklore, storytelling, arts, and crafts. To conserve, maintain and develop the Halsway Manor as a hub for these activities.

Latest Income: £1,379,491
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The English Concert

Arts

To promote, maintain, improve & advance education & the encouragement of the arts, particularly by the presentation of musical, performances & educational activities. The charity arranges concerts & musical performances & provides orchestra services to enable concerts & recordings to take place.

Latest Income: £1,375,966
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The New Theatre Royal-Trustees (portsmouth) Limited

Arts

The Trust is responsible for the upkeep and running of a grade 2* listed theatre and aims to celebrate that heritage.The New Theatre Royal promotes and presents a programme of both professional touring work and local amateur performances that includes theatre, music and dance. A comprehensive programme of workshops, classes and other work complete the educational and community portfolio.

Latest Income: £1,369,680
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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New Diorama

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure, Social welfare

To promote, maintain, improve and advance public education through dramatic performance in all forms, to make the arts relevant to the community.To provide recreation/leisure time with the object of improving conditions of life inclusive of youth, age, infirmity, disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances and that such facilities shall be available to the public at large.

Latest Income: £1,365,171
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Live Music Now Limited

Arts

Live Music Now is a UK-wide music outreach charity, established in 1977 by Yehudi Menuhin with two strategic aims; To bring live music of the highest quality to those for whom access to its benefits is normally restricted; To support the professional development of musicians at the outset of their careers, ensuring the highest quality of delivery through a rigorous selection and training process.

Latest Income: £1,362,782
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Music Camp Trust

Arts

The principal activity of the company is genuine amateur music, at Music Camp. Help is given through the provision of facilities at Pigotts, North Dean, near High Wycombe, where musicians meet to rehearse.

Latest Income: £1,357,730
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Theatre Investment Fund Limited

Arts

The charity has an office in London. Theatre Investment Fund aims to support the theatrical community and to expand theatrical arts education.

Latest Income: £1,339,365
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The London Mozart Players Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Housing

The orchestra performs music around the UK and Europe as well as at its home in Croydon. Central to the organisations mission is creating access to music for young people and for those whose ability to attend performances is limited physically or geographically.

Latest Income: £1,338,808
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Core Arts

Arts, Health

Relieving persons suffering from mental illness by the encouragement of participation in creative activities, particularly, but not exclusively, painting, photography, printing, music and creative writing.

Latest Income: £1,333,657
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Clean Break Theatre Company

Arts, Beneficiary group

Clean Break uses theatre for personal and political change, working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

Latest Income: £1,333,042
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Paines Plough Limited

Arts

As the UK's national theatre of new plays with the playwright at its heart, Paines Plough widely tours world premiere productions and offers bespoke development support to playwrights.Over the past 40 years, Paines Plough has established itself as a leading new writing company producing work by a wide range of playwrights across the UK and abroad.

Latest Income: £1,330,978
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Dreams Come True Charity

Arts, Beneficiary group, Health, Leisure

Dreams Come True is a national charity that brings joy to terminally and seriously ill children and young people by making their treasured dreams come true. Since it was founded in 1988 it has brought joy to more than 5,000 children across the UK. Dreams include meeting a favourite sports or pop star, swimming with dolphins, starring in a rock concert, equipment and holidays.

Latest Income: £1,314,230
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Colwinston Charitable Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

The Trust distributes grants to UK Registered Charities working predominantly in the areas of Opera, Music and the Visual Arts, and library and archive projects in Wales. The Trust seeks to sustain and support high quality artistic activities that add to the cultural life and experiences available in the UK, especially in Wales where over 80% of its grants are directed.

Latest Income: £1,312,469
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Blackheath Halls

Arts, Heritage

To advance education particularly by the encouragement of the arts of music and drama and the visual arts generally. To preserve the building of historical and architectural interest that is the Blackheath Halls, Lee Road, Blackheath, London SE3.

Latest Income: £1,284,718
Areas of Operation: Greenwich
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many Performing art arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 4,117 registered Performing art arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the Performing art arts charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of Performing art arts charities?

Performing art arts charities reported a combined annual income of £6.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for Performing art arts charities?

Across all Performing art arts charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 100.0%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of Performing art arts charities?

Performing art arts charities have an average annual income of £678k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.