THE HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1100851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Performance of choral music.

Objects

TO PROMOTE CHORAL MUSIC AND, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THAT OBJECTIVE, TO FORM AND MAINTAIN A CHOIR, A YOUTH CHOIR AND A YOUNG VOICES' CHOIR AND TO PROMOTE THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE OF CHORAL WORKS AND TO GIVE CONCERTS IN HUDDERSFIELD AND AT SUCH OTHER PLACE OR PLACES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND ELSEWHERE AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FROM TIME TO TIME

Area of benefit: HUDDERSFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £277,602, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to no less than six months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm that assets and proposed future fundraising activities are sufficient to meet anticipated expenditure, indicating no material uncertainty regarding going concern.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Huddersfield Choral Society (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Sargentchair
• Andrew Wright
• Charles Michael Brook
• DR HELEN RUTH MARTIN
• DR MARK ANDREW TAYLOR
• Gaynor Margaret Haliday
• HILARY BARBARA MCLEAN
• LUCY POPLE
• Margaret Sarah Wickham
• Rowena Burton
• Ruth Cole · trustee of 3 other charities
• SIR JOHN ANDREW HARMAN
• SUE TURNBULL
• Sally Ruth Robertshaw
• Sue Hornby

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED.

• ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
• HERTFORDSHIRE CHORUS income £123k
• PHILHARMONIA CHORUS LIMITED income £251k
• HEDLEY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.5m
• HOPE CHURCH HUDDERSFIELD income £179k
• SOUL CHURCH LTD income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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