NOTTINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LTD

Registered charity 1001832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NOTTINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Promotion of musical education

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA MIME DANCE SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND EAST MIDLANDS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Amber Valley, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £13,743 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £38,860. The trustees attribute this deficit primarily to a recording project and disappointing concert income, noting that future projects will be less expensive. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02427833

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WALSH, Joceline Ayako — director, appointed 02/09/2026on trustee list
• NICHOLSON, Antonia — director, appointed 18/03/2024on trustee list
• NELSON, Rachel Helen, Dr — director, appointed 30/07/2022on trustee list
• KELLY, Jean Margaret — director, appointed 17/12/2002on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antonia Nicholson
• Dr Rachel Helen Nelson
• JEAN MARGARET KELLY
• Joceline Walsh

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Derbyshire · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NOTTINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

• NOTTINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £26k
• LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £95k
• HATFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £45k
• THE NORWICH PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £86k
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• SHEFFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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