It provides specialist advice to a variety of stakeholders throughout Britain to assist with the promotion and preservation of theatre buildings.
The Trust offers guidance and advice relating to planning, heritage, regeneration and development, architecture and design which concern theatres.
The trust's remit covers a wide range of buildings which include theatres, old and new, in current use, in other uses, or disused.
Paragraph 1A of the Schedule to the Theatres Trust Act 1976 requires that "one of the trustees shall be a person who appears to the Secretary of State to have special knowledge of Scotland".
[12] The rest of its funding is mostly derived from proceeds from events held by the Theatres Trust and donations by supporters.