OPERA HOLLAND PARK

Registered charity 1096273 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OPERA HOLLAND PARK FRIENDS

promote improve and advance the education and appreciation of the general public in the Arts and in particular opera.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small surplus of £17,582, bringing total funds to £1,148,689. Free reserves stood at £686,399, which is below the Trustees' stated target of £1m. The Trustees confirmed that the charity is well placed to continue operating for the foreseeable future with adequate liquidity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £110,000 - £119,999 (FY2024) to £120,001 - £130,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Clutton — CEO and Director of Opera (source)
• Sir David Verey CBE — Chair (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).

• Javett Family International Charitable Trust — “Javett Family International Charitable Trust” (source page)
• BGS Cayzer Charitable Trust — “BGS Cayzer Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Stuart and Ellen Lyons Charitable Trust — “Stuart and Ellen Lyons Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Hollick Family Foundation — “Hollick Family Foundation” (source page)
• Tinsley Charitable Trust — “Tinsley Charitable Trust” (source page)
• David and Claudia Harding Foundation — “David and Claudia Harding Foundation” (source page)
• Earls Court Community Fund — “Earls Court Community Fund” (source page)
• Golsoncott Foundation — “Golsoncott Foundation” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir David Vereychair
• Helen Nicola Steers MBE
• JEAN TSANG
• Loyd Grossman CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Brown
• Ramanbir Bhatia
• Sir Thomas Hughes- Hallett
• Su-Mei Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GRANGE PARK OPERA.

• GRANGE PARK OPERA income £4.0m
• OPERA PRELUDE income £143k
• THE MERRY OPERA COMPANY income £178k
• FRIENDS OF DIVA OPERA LIMITED income £255k
• WATERPERRY OPERA FESTIVAL income £748k
• OPERA NORTH LIMITED income £18.8m

Side by side with its peers

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