HALIFAX CHORAL SOCIETY (1817) LIMITED

Registered charity 1020049 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HALIFAX CHORAL SOCIETY

Presentation, promotion and performance of choral music, concerts and other activities

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF ITS MEMBERS AND OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that funds generated or donated during the year were sufficient to enable the Company to continue presenting concerts. The Directors maintained free reserves at a minimum level of between £20,000 and £30,000. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Making Music — “Brought to you by Making Music” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Teal
• Clive Roland Lloyd · trustee of 4 other charities
• Debra Page
• Laura Rawnsley
• Mark Adamczyk
• NIGEL GEORGE CASTLEDINE
• Susan Stevens

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

Operates in: Calderdale

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).