Chester Music and Theatre Company

Registered charity 1087478 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESTER OPERATIC SOCIETY

To advance the education of operatic culture in the community. To promote and improve the art of operatic works and musical theatre, particularly by the encouragement and development of young people and to stimulate public appreciation and cultivate further interests in operatic and dramatic art.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS TO FUTURE THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTES IN THE SAID ARTS

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: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an accumulated fund of £25,520.42, representing a surplus of £1,176.91 for the period. The unrestricted reserves increased from £22,396.51 to £24,463.65, indicating stable financial resources. The independent examiner confirmed the statements were in accordance with the accounting records.

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 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julian Eyrechair
• Anna Morris
• Christine Westcott
• David Michael Whitley
• Deborah Louise Henshall
• Matthew John Pace
• Pauline Morton
• Simon John Morris
• WILLIAM SHAW

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Flintshire · Wirral · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BELPER MUSICAL THEATRE.

• THE BELPER MUSICAL THEATRE income £38k
• YORK MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY income £29k
• EAST BERKSHIRE OPERATIC SOCIETY income £96k
• GATESHEAD MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY income £29k
• WINCHESTER MUSICALS AND OPERA SOCIETY income £45k
• THE PRESTON MUSICAL COMEDY SOCIETY income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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