OXFORD CHAMBER MUSIC FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1080114 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OXFORD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LIMITED

The Company is established to promote, maintain, improve, and advance education by the encouragement of the arts, in particular but not exclusively music, and to formulate, prepare and establish schemes therefor, provided that all objects of the Company shall be of a charitable nature.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY MUSIC, AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE

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: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased to £83,488, resulting in a net surplus of £949 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity carries forward unrestricted reserves of £7,579, which are considered free reserves. The trustees are satisfied that the charity will continue to operate as a going concern due to careful financial management and low running costs.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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 28/02/2021 (received 19/01/2022, 22 days after the 28/12/2021 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Cavatina Trust — “Thanks to the generous support of the Cavatina Trust, OCMF has been able to offer free tickets to under-25s in previous editions.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Mary Petre Harbord · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leonardo Metelli Arcos de Oliveira
• Nicola Joy Brown
• ROBERT HENRY WARNER

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.

• OXFORD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC income £274k
• OXFORD MAY MUSIC income £45k
• THE SIXTEEN income £1.7m
• SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR income £40k
• BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP income £630k
• OXFORD LIEDER income £710k

Side by side with its peers

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