ARMONICO CONSORT LIMITED

Registered charity 1103159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARMONICO CONSORT

THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION, THROUGH PUBLIC CONCERTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES, IN THE APPRECIATION OF CHORAL, OPERA, BAROQUE AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL AND OTHER LIFE SKILLS FOR THE PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES.

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, PRIMARILY OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIODS BY PROMOTING OR PARTICIPATING IN PUBLIC CONCERTS:3.2 TO ENCOURAGE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY ORGANISING AND PARTICIPATING INA SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £62,313 for the year ended 31 January 2026, continuing a trend of surpluses since the pandemic. However, the balance sheet shows total net liabilities of £156,435, indicating the charity is operating with negative equity. The trustees acknowledge that strict financial measures are in place and target a positive balance sheet by July 2027, while aiming to build reserves equivalent to six months of core running costs by 2028.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2025) → 0 (FY2026).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04851028

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Christopher Monks — Founder and Artistic Director (source)
• Geoffrey Webber — Associate Artistic Director (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BOYDEN, John — director, appointed 18/12/2015on trustee list
• HARBOUR, Malcolm John Charles — director, appointed 19/03/2015not on trustee list
• SAMPSON, Jonathan Robert — director, appointed 19/07/2012not on trustee list
• MONKS, Claire Rachel — director, appointed 14/11/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (54% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN BOYDENchair
• Claire Monks
• JONATHAN ROBERT SAMPSON QC
• MALCOLM JOHN CHARLES HARBOUR CBE · 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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 PHILHARMONIA LTD.

• PHILHARMONIA LTD income £11.1m
• SONORO income £92k
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• OPDA income £538k
• THE TONBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £59k
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS income £167k

Side by side with its peers

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