LONDON ORIANA CHOIR LIMITED

Registered charity 1038120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON ORIANA CHOIR

The London Oriana Choir is recognised as one of Britain's leading amateur choirs, known for its high standards, broad repertoire and the vibrant energy of its performances. It performs at major central London venues such as the Barbican, South Bank Centre, St John's Smith Square and St James' Piccadilly, and is frequently invited to perform at other promoters' events.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELDS OF CHORAL MUSIC, CHURCH MUSIC, OPERA AND OTHER CLASSICAL WORKS AND MUSICAL AND VOCAL COMPOSITIONS OF ALL KINDS.

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 reported a surplus of £1,494 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £31,204. The financial review notes that while concert activities ran at a deficit, other activities generated a surplus, and the directors maintain a reserves policy to finance future planned activities with a prudent allowance for unexpected expenses.

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 5 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN PHILIP POOLE
• Christopher William Birkle
• David Ian Bartlett
• Jessica Bonnie Geneen
• Lizann Peppard · 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS.

• THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS income £167k
• LONDON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL income £156k
• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
• ORA CHOIR income £282k
• CITY OF LONDON CHOIR income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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