THE ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN

Registered charity 1068570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and maintain public education in and appreciation of the art and science of music in all its aspects.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS, RECITALS, FESTIVALS, OPERA, BALLET, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS AND DISPLAYS AND ENTERTAINMENTS OF ALL KINDS INVOLVING ORCHESTRAS, THE THEATRE, VARIETY STAGE, MUSICALS, RADIO, TELEVISION AND OTHER MEANS OF TRANSMITTING SOUND OR PICTORIAL AFFECTS ("THE EVENTS") FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a modest surplus of £3,374, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £87,827. Per the trustees' report, this figure falls short of their stated policy target of £100,000 (equivalent to three months' running costs), although the trustees consider current reserves sufficient for planned activities. The charity noted a contraction in business due to economic challenges, including venue closures and reduced grant funding, which led to one staff redundancy.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Orchestra of the Swan (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Susannah Pugh Evans
• Carolyn Fiona Hodges
• Christopher Wheeler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hilary Clare Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN WILLIAM EWART LIGGINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marcus Boyd Willett
• Roger Wilson
• Simon Roy Littlewood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sunney Sharma

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

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

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

• THE ORCHESTRA OF THE CITY income £28k
• WINCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £28k
• ORCHESTRAS FOR ALL income £853k
• THE SWAN SONG PROJECT income £32k
• SAFFRON WALDEN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY income £48k
• SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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