BURNLEY MUNICIPAL CHOIR

Registered charity 1110514 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

?To encourage and facilitate personal creativity through the shared experience of singing choral music. ?To share and enrich wider community life through public performance.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, DEVELOP, IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF CLASSICAL CHORAL MUSIC, BY REHEARSAL, STUDY & PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF SUCH MUSIC

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: Burnley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£38k
Latest spending
£33k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Burnley Municipal Choir reported a profit on the season of £4,599.77 for the year ending 2025-03-31. Total income was £20,525.03 against total expenditure of £16,176.01, resulting in a closing balance of £34,427.14 held in a Virgin Money Current Account. The accounts were checked and verified on 8.5.25.

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 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 20

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 20

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 20

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£38k£33k
31/03/2024£37k£29k
31/03/2023£34k£25k
31/03/2022£22k£22k
31/03/2021£2k£418

Common questions

Is BURNLEY MUNICIPAL CHOIR financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Burnley Municipal Choir reported a profit on the season of £4,599.77 for the year ending 2025-03-31. Total income was £20,525.03 against total expenditure of £16,176.01, resulting in a closing balance of £34,427.14 held in a Virgin Money Current Account. The accounts were checked and verified on 8.5.25. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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
DUMBRECK CHARITY1£6k
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FOUNDATION1£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BURNLEY MUNICIPAL CHOIR£38k—0unclear—no doubt
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR FY2025£72k—0below—no doubt
ILKLEY CHORAL SOCIETY FY2025£27k—0above—no doubt
BEVERLEY MALE VOICE CHOIR FY2025£27k—0below—no doubt
BECKENHAM CHORALE FY2025£41k—0unclear—no doubt
BANBURY CHORAL SOCIETY FY2025£33k—0unclear—no doubt

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