FULHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1094899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a large amateur orchestra that performs public concerts, enabling local audiences to experience live orchestral music. We also provide opportunities for amateur musicians to rehearse and perform a wide range of orchestral repertoire and for emerging soloists to perform concertos in public.

Objects

The objects of the Charity shall be to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public events.

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: Ealing, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £77,219 against a stated policy target of £8,000, resulting in a significant surplus above its policy. The trustees report that the charity is in a good financial position, supported by legacy funds and a surplus of £3,425, which they believe will enable it to withstand cost challenges such as venue refurbishments and inflation.

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.

• Complaints 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
• 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

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 31/08/2023 (received 09/08/2024, 40 days after the 30/06/2024 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Robinsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Flora Havelock
• GAVIN COMPTON
• Juliette Alexandra Morris
• Michelle Bernadette Tautenhead
• Nicholas Robert Pitt
• RICHARD STONE

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

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

• THE NORFOLK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £41k
• HORSHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £34k
• SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £55k
• NOTTINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £26k
• TORBAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £26k
• FULHAM AND HAMMERSMITH CHORAL SOCIETY income £41k

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