THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST

Registered charity 1024838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q781834 · Wikipedia · also known as WIGMORE HALL

The key objects of the Trust are to maintain and administer Wigmore Hall and to promote appreciation and knowledge of chamber music, song and other art forms, for the benefit of the public.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO(A)MAINTAIN AND ADMINISTER THE WIGMORE HALL FOR PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC AND;(B)TO PROMOTE NATIONALLY THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART 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.

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

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £2,738,543, which is below the stated policy target of £4.0 million. The charity reported a net income for the year of £2,389,899 and total net assets of £18,250,050, with the auditor confirming no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 02754525

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Gilhooly — Director / Executive Director / Artistic Director (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 AKO Foundation — “Under 35s tickets are supported by The AKO Foundation” (source page)

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.

• MASON, Stuart Graeme — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Judith Anne — director, appointed 28/02/2019on trustee list
• BOYD, Julia Daphne, Lady — director, appointed 03/06/2015on trustee list
• HAWTIN, Mark Barrie — director, appointed 01/02/2006on trustee list
• ADAMS, Aubrey John — director, appointed 22/07/2002on trustee list
• CARVELL, Jonathan Keir — secretary, appointed 11/12/2025

Official officers record.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AUBREY JOHN ADAMSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Baroness Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger DBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Judith Anne Davies
• Lady Julia Boyd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lord Graham Eric Stirrup
• MARK HAWTIN
• Stuart Mason · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 WILTONS MUSIC HALL.

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Side by side with its peers

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