CITY OF BRISTOL CHOIR

Registered charity 1015961 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of public concerts of choral music, and supporting young singers

Objects

TO PROMOTE IMPROVE AND DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE CHOIR THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME

Area of benefit: BRISTOL

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: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £23,524 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by increased subscriptions and gift aid despite high concert costs. The trustees report that the financial position remains satisfactory and that resources are adequate to continue operations without material uncertainty. Reserves are held to support ongoing activities and provide a contingency fund.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• PRS Foundation — “City of Bristol Choir is supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisations” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Lovelesschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alice Howse
• Helen Victoria Burke · trustee of 1 other charity
• JENNIFER ANN HEMMING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Walter Thorpe Harradine · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rose Lancaster
• Sarah Lucy Pascall · trustee of 1 other charity
• TIM JACKSON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR.

• CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR income £72k
• BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS income £138k
• BRISTOL BACH CHOIR income £31k
• BINGHAM AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY income £26k
• QUESTA income £43k
• ORA CHOIR income £282k

Side by side with its peers

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