PIMLICO OPERA

Registered charity 1003836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pimlico aims to use music and drama to advance personal development, particularly with younger people. Artistic excellence is an essential part of achieving thisA different production is staged in an English prison periodically and a project started in 2013 in schools using music and theatre to expand the outlook and enrich the lives of schoolchildren who have little exposure to songs and music

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION,SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ART OF MUSIC AND DRAMA(INCLUDING OPERA,MUSIC,DRAMA,DANCING SINGING AND ALL FORMS CONSTITUTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF MUSIC) AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION,ENCOURAGEMENT AND APPRECIATION OF OPERA.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £278,344 are above the trustees' stated minimum policy level of approximately £300,000 when combined with restricted funds held for programme delivery. The charity reports a net income before taxation of £154,012 and holds total consolidated funds of £586,085, indicating sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 5 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Meagherchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew John Uttley
• Heike Christa Helene Munro
• Jeremy Farr
• John Griffith Derrick
• Lady Isabella Mary Alexandra Murray
• Natalya Zeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Anderson

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

Operates in: Durham · Essex · Hampshire · Kent · Manchester City · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PIMLICO MUSICAL FOUNDATION.

• PIMLICO MUSICAL FOUNDATION income £265k
• INTO OPERA income £80k
• OPERA ANYWHERE LIMITED income £99k
• THE EARLY OPERA COMPANY LIMITED income £67k
• BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA income £131k
• OPERA PRELUDE income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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