OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TRUST

Registered charity 1084256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE OXFORD PHILOMUSICA TRUST

PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS, INCLUDING THE CARRYING ON OF ACTIVITIES OF THE ORCHESTRA KNOWN AS THE OXFORD PHILHARMONIC, AND PROMOTE THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £404,743 for the year, with total funds carried forward reaching £1,213,908. The trustees aim to maintain unrestricted reserves at six months' running costs, a target which the current unrestricted funds of £1,203,908 cover. The organization remains dependent on donor support and fundraising due to ticket sales generating less than 20% of required income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marios Papadopoulos — Music Director (source)
• Marios Papadopoulos — Founder and Music Director (source)
• Marios Papadopoulos — Music Director (Oxford International Opera) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• A.G. Leventis Foundation — “DIAMOND Benefactors A.G. Leventis Foundation” (source page)
• Arigato Trust — “Platinum Benefactors Arigato Trust” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony William Hall · trustee of 1 other charity
• COLIN JAMES MAUND · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID HAENLEIN
• DR MARIOS PAPADOPOULOS MBE
• Dr Louis Russell Hirshfield
• GEOFFREY JOHN DE JAGER
• H.S.H. Prince and Duke Etienne d'Arenberg
• Lord Reginald Alexander Vane-Tempest Stewart
• Marco Assetto
• Natalie Frances Stoneham
• Prof. Christopher Barry Wood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Sir Andrew John Pollard
• Saphie Ashtiany · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir Ivor Anthony Roberts KCMG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir Jonathan Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 LIEDER.

• OXFORD LIEDER income £710k
• ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S LIMITED income £337k
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• THE ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN income £672k
• ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS income £4.6m
• THE ENGLISH CONCERT income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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