Rotunda Ltd

Analysis

Rotunda Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in July 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02050597). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Rotunda Ltd reported income of £1.4m and spending of £1.1m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £979k to £1.4m (+45%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 92% 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, Rotunda Ltd sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thinktank Trust (£1.4m), Beis Soroh Schenierer Seminary (£1.4m) and Falklands Conservation (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 64%, donations and legacies 26%, trading 6.3% and investments 3.3%. Charitable activities took 86% of spending and raising funds 9.0%. Reserves of £128k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 30 people.