SETTLE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1025554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SETTLE ORCHESTRA

Provides public live orchestral and choral/orchestral concerts employing a wide repertoire. Gives local amateur and semi-professional musicians the opportunity to play together. Encourages the appreciation of classical/light classical music. Provides opportunities for young people to develop musical and listening skills. Works with other musical, educational and community groups on joint projects.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC, IN THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.

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 the charity achieved a net surplus of £7,966 for the year ended 31 August 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £18,663. The filing shows net current assets of £18,663 against current liabilities, indicating a positive working capital position without explicit mention of going concern risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Settle Orchestral Society (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES DOBSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANDREW LIPSCOMBE
• Dr Fiona Annabel Nicholson
• Dr Paul Atkinson
• Elizabeth Ann Smailes
• Jillian Sara Gates
• Judith Elizabeth Sumnall
• LUCY IRENE GRAHAM MARTIN
• Margaret Catriona Crossley

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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