GARSINGTON OPERA LIMITED

Registered charity 1003042 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Established in 1989, Garsington Opera is a professional opera company which has established a reputation for producing opera of the highest standard with a repertoire that combines both well known operas and discoveries of little known works. Garsington Opera has played a full a role as possible in the local community and an educational programme is run in local schools.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £9,876,613 with net assets of £24,714,768. Free reserves were £2,963,108, which is below the stated policy target of £3,214,811 required to cover 12 months of operating costs. The trustees consider the current reserves position to be adequate based on five-year planning cycles.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ben Weston — Executive Director (source)
• Douglas Boyd — Artistic Leadership (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Rothschild Foundation — “Three-year support from The Rothschild Foundation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE INGRAMS
• CLEMENTINE MEDINA MARKS
• Gary Alan Powell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Jennifer Stringer
• MIRANDA CURTIS
• NEIL GERALD ALEXANDER KING
• Nigel Higgins
• Nina Louisa Frost
• PROFESSOR JONATHAN FREEMAN-ATTWOOD CBE · trustee of 5 other charities
• Philip Benedict Weston

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GLYNDEBOURNE PRODUCTIONS LIMITED.

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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.