LANGHAM ARTS TRUST

Registered charity 1059611 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the Christian religion through the music ministry of All Souls Church Langham Place, London. Primarily by supporting the events of the All Souls musicians and related activities. The Trust aims to: support the wider church by sharing resources in events such as Prom Praise; expand experiences of young people through PP4Schools; develop the gifts of the All Souls musicians.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

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: Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £121,843 for the year ended 31 December 2025, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £119,258. The trustees' policy is to hold three months of working capital in unrestricted reserves, which the current unrestricted balance falls below. The charity remains dependent on donations, grants, and membership income, with the board monitoring risks related to post-pandemic recovery and live event attendance.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: LANGHAM PROMOTIONS LIMITED Companies House 02197051
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03281520

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.

• DINNING, Max William — director, appointed 19/07/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Ian Philip — director, appointed 19/07/2024on trustee list
• JAMES, Stephen Lynn, Rev — director, appointed 04/07/2024on trustee list
• IBBETT, Yolanda Alexandra — director, appointed 28/11/2022on trustee list
• GAWLEY, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Lynn Jameschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• IAN PHILIP JOHNSON
• Max William Dinning
• Sarah Gawley
• Yolanda Alexandra Ibbett · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUCILLE GRAHAM TRUST LIMITED.

• LUCILLE GRAHAM TRUST LIMITED income £35k
• CULHAM CHAPEL TRUST income £356k
• THE AMERSHAM FESTIVAL SOCIETY income £92k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SOULS, LANGHAM PLACE, LONDON income £5.1m
• ETERNITY DOWNHAM MARKET income £143k
• Canvas income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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