FOREST PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 1026792 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, maintain, improve and advance musical education and to increase the public's knowledge of and educate the public's taste for music

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAIMTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE MUSICAL EDUCATION AND TO IMPROVE THE PUBLICS KNOWLEDGE OF AND EDUCATE THE PUBLICS TASTE FOR 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 unrestricted funds stand at £49,395 against a stated reserves policy target of approximately £10,000. The trustees note that box office revenues cannot be significantly raised due to venue constraints, but subscription collection rates have remained good. The charity is operating under an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

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

• Ingles & Heyday — “Heather receives a £500 prize, generously donated by the event sponsor Ingles & Heyday” (source page)
• Mrs E James — “The orchestra is also very grateful to Mrs E James for their generous donation” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew John Kellychair
• CAROLINE ANN ASHLEY
• Dr Robert Callum Lankester Pearce-Higgins
• Jane Clare Lee
• Janice Twiselton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Laura Beatrice Tomlinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Daniel Elson
• Rachel Elizabeth Simnett
• SYLVIA APRIL POULSEN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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