CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR

Registered charity 1049684 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Study, promotion and performance of choral music

Objects

TO PROMOTE IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ASPECTS BY PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CHOIR THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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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Registered contact address: North East Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £7,126 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £219,280 to £212,154. The trustees consider the current general reserve of £203,314 to be adequate to continue operations, noting that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to maintain the charity as a going concern.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony David Pannell
• JILL TAYLOR
• Lucy Mair-Winter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Toolan
• PATRICIA BOWDEN
• Stella Winifred Thebridge · trustee of 3 other charities
• Teresa Anne Siggins
• Tim Low

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Gloucestershire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF BRISTOL CHOIR.

• CITY OF BRISTOL CHOIR income £68k
• BINGHAM AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY income £26k
• ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH CHORAL DIRECTORS income £90k
• BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP income £630k
• SHERBORNE CHAMBER CHOIR income £28k
• BECKENHAM CHORALE income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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