Soho Theatre Company Limited

Analysis

Soho Theatre Company Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01151823). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Soho Theatre Company Limited reported income of £6.8m and spending of £7.8m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £3.1m to £6.8m (+116%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Soho Theatre Company Limited sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Limited (£6.7m), Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust (£6.8m) and Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust Limited (£6.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 59%, trading 25% and donations and legacies 16%. Charitable activities took 77% of spending and raising funds 20%. It employed 103 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.