ORCHESTRAS LIVE

Registered charity 1117211 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Orchestras Live believes orchestras are for everyone. We are a national producer and create projects where music and creativity can thrive. We work to ensure communities across the country have access to world-class orchestral experiences.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £47,469 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,142,167 against total expenditure of £1,094,698. The trustees note that free unrestricted reserves of £178,738 were slightly below their stated policy target of three months' operational activity, though they do not consider this material. The charity holds a pension surplus and maintains sufficient cash deposits to cover operational costs and potential pension liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DJH Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Derbyshire — Chief Executive (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).

• Arts Council England — “Arts Council England logo” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation logo” (source page)
• Scops Arts Trust — “Scops Arts Trust logo” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Elizabeth Harrisonchair
• Anthony Edward Latham
• Caroline Rose Downs
• Dr Peter Leslie COLLINS
• Jeremy David CLAY
• Joanne Claire Towler
• Matthew Robert Swann
• Michelle HINES
• Natalie Sarah Ellis
• Natasha Solano · trustee of 1 other charity
• Scott Campbell DICKSON
• Tobias Christopher Francis Wright · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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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 THE LONDON MOZART PLAYERS TRUST.

• THE LONDON MOZART PLAYERS TRUST income £1.3m
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• ALINA ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £150k
• BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £8.6m
• ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S LIMITED income £337k
• NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRAS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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