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BATH MINERVA CHOIR

Registered charity 1098142 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Non-audition choir which performs in public generally three times per year

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP, AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BATH

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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Latest income
£106k
Latest spending
£109k
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts describe a year of significant artistic achievement, including a BBC Proms performance and an overseas tour, but do not provide specific financial figures for income or expenditure. The trustees highlight that fundraising is key to covering costs, noting that securing soloists and putting on concerts 'doesn’t come cheap.'

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£106k£109k
31/12/2023£40k£46k
31/12/2022£37k£35k
31/12/2021£40k£33k
31/12/2020£27k£15k

Common questions

Is BATH MINERVA CHOIR financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts describe a year of significant artistic achievement, including a BBC Proms performance and an overseas tour, but do not provide specific financial figures for income or expenditure. The trustees highlight that fundraising is key to covering costs, noting that securing soloists and putting on concerts 'doesn’t come cheap.'

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST3£153k
DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST2£9k
L G HARRIS TRUST1—
PURPOSEFUL VENTURES1£250k
THE RIGBY FOUNDATION1£80k
THE 29TH MAY 1961 CHARITY1£60k
THE CLIVE RICHARDS FOUNDATION1£60k
THE ROGER & DOUGLAS TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST1£50k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Bath Philharmonic Orchestra.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BATH MINERVA CHOIR£106k—0unclear—no doubt
Bath Philharmonic Orchestra FY2025£407k—0above—no doubt
THE BACH CHOIR FY2025£443k—0unclear—no doubt
LONDON ORIANA CHOIR LIMITED FY2025£106k—0unclear—no doubt
BRISTOL CHORAL SOCIETY FY2025£162k—0below—no doubt
BATH MOZARTFEST LIMITED FY2025£397k—0unclear—no doubt

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