WORTHING PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED

Registered charity 1064019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of Concerts

Objects

ARE TO PROMOTE , IMPROVE AND DEVELOP PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ORCHESTRAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR MUSICIANS TO REHEARSE MUSIC AND PERFORM MUSIC AT SUCH CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: WEST SUSSEX

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 total income rose to £42,167, resulting in a net surplus of £13,282. Free reserves stood at £28,598, which exceeds the stated policy target of up to £10,000. The trustees expressed comfort with the current financial position and reserves levels.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Holmeschair
• Christopher Dack · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Elvet Lewis
• Susan Best

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• THE LEICESTER PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £52k
• WINCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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