KENT SINFONIA

Registered charity 1048947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA BASED IN KENT; WORK INCLUDES EDUCATION OUTREACH PROJECTS WITH SCHOOLS AND BRINGING MUSIC TO NEW AUDIENCES. ALSO PROVIDES PERFORMANCE PLATFORM FOR OUTSTANDING YOUNG SOLOISTS. ALSO AVAILABLE FOR WORK WITH CHORAL AND OPERA ENSEMBLES AND FOR HELP TO PROMOTE WORK OF NEW COMPOSERS.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF THE ART OF MUSIC INCLUDING OPERA, MUSIC DRAMA BALLET AND ALL ART FORMS CONSISTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF MUSIC PARTICULARLY BY THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF ORCHESTRAL 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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds are in a deficit of £154 as of 30 June 2025, having decreased from a deficit of £998 in the prior year. The trustees report that they continue to adopt the going concern basis, having a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 12/05/2023, 12 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03055862

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.

• ROSS, James Magnus, Dr — director, appointed 25/01/2021on trustee list
• WASSELL, Steven John — director, appointed 12/01/2012on trustee list
• MUSSETT, Andrew Duncan — director, appointed 15/10/2000on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Sheila Christine — director, appointed 12/11/1998on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Roger — secretary, appointed 15/06/1995

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DUNCAN MUSSETT
• Dr James Ross
• SHEILA CHRISTINE MARSHALL
• STEVEN JOHN WASSELL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sinfonia Smith Square Foundation.

• Sinfonia Smith Square Foundation income £66k
• SEVENOAKS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £31k
• BRITTEN SINFONIA LTD income £1.6m
• LAKELAND SINFONIA CIO income £77k
• CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA LIMITED income £1.2m
• ORPHEUS SINFONIA FOUNDATION income £218k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.