OUGD503 - COLLABORATIVE - YCN Student Awards : Royal Albert Hall - Charitable Status Research

Charity

More than just a venue

As well as hosting performances by many of the world’s finest artists, the Royal Albert Hall is also a charity with four areas of work:

• Maintaining and developing our beautiful Grade 1 listed building.
• Supporting a thriving Education & Outreach programme giving access to music, arts and sciences to thousands of people each year.
• Preserving a publically accessible Archive of the Hall which charts the social history of Britain since our doors first opened in 1871.
• Encouraging and developing new talent through our own programming initiatives.

The Hall also supports many other charities by offering reduced rental rates for their fundraising events. We do all of this without revenue funding from central or local government.

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The Hall has an area of its website where you can donate through the JustGiving system.

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Support Our Work

'The work of education departments such as yours transforms our students’ understanding of Dance and the Arts. You bring to life what we teachers do in the classroom, giving our work a sense of reality and vitality that is impossible for us to create without your assistance. The legacy of these amazing projects is such that their benefits can extend far into the future for the students and teachers who have been lucky enough to participate in them.'

Simon Dobson, Director of Dance, Holland Park School

Key to the fulfilment of the Royal Albert Hall's charitable objects are:

• To continue and further expand our programme of Education, especially with young people who might otherwise have little opportunity to experience live performance or visit the Hall.
• To ensure the long term maintenance and further development of this important, Grade I Listed building.
• To encourage and develop new talent through the Hall's own programming initiatives.
• The Royal Albert Hall receives no revenue funding from central or local government and for that reason financial support from trusts, companies and individual benefactors is especially valued.

The Hall is owned and operated by a registered charity and has as its objectives promoting the Arts and Sciences and maintaining the building. By hiring out the Hall to those who stage concerts and other events, and through some of our own programming, we are able to cover the day-to-day operating costs of the building. But we need financial support to help us fulfil our aims.

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The Hall as a Charity

The Royal Albert Hall is effectively held in trust for the nation by a charity. The Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences, registered charity number 254543, operates without the benefit of any public funding.

The Corporation was established in 1866 by Royal Charter and its objects are to maintain the Royal Albert Hall, a Grade I Listed building of historical and cultural significance and, through its use, to promote the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the Arts and Sciences.

The Corporation provides public benefit by:

• Maintaining and improving the facilities of an important listed building, and enabling the public to take tours of the building;
• Hiring the Hall to third parties for the presentation of performances of music, opera, dance and the  wide range of other events that are permitted under the Hall's governing instruments;
• Itself promoting concerts and, with partners, performances of opera, dance and musicals;
• Making the Hall available for performances by children and amateur groups;
• Offering preferential terms for fundraising events by charities;
• By its programme of Learning & Participation events which provide opportunities for young people to experience and participate in live performance and to visit the Hall and explore its history.

The beneficiaries of the Hall's activities include more than 1 million people each year who attend live performances; millions more who enjoy radio and television broadcasts, online transmissions and DVDs and films of performances at the Hall; more than 30,000 young people who participate each year in the Hall's Learning & Participation programmes; a significant number of other children and amateur groups who perform at the Hall each year; typically 30 or more charities each year who hire the Hall for fundraising events and who enjoy preferential terms and especially the charity to which the Hall is let free of charge each year for a major fundraising event; and the public at large who are offered tours of the building or access at other times to attend free concerts or exhibitions.

The Royal Albert Hall receives no operating grants from central or local government. It relies on revenues generated from its operations and private sector donations in order to maintain the building and to fulfill its other purposes.

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