SUTTON VALENCE CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1119160 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Public Education in Music

Objects

TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS; TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT BUT IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MAKING OF GRANTS AND DONATIONS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, KENT

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: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £11,524 for the year ended 31 July 2025, bringing total accumulated funds to £27,981. The trustees note that the current reserves policy aims to maintain approximately one year's total expenditure, though they have decided to review this target following recent changes in leadership and venue. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were identified in the independent examiner's report.

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 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Alison Jordanchair
• ANDREW JAMES HUTCHINSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Paul Mann
• DEBORAH JULIE JAMES
• ELAINE MAHONEY
• Elizabeth Mary Monckton
• Josephine Mary Baughan
• LAURA LORRAINE LEWIS
• MS JANE HILL
• PAMELA HIPKINS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SUTTON VALENCE SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE SUTTON VALENCE SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £82k
• SPELTHORNE CHORAL SOCIETY income £42k
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY income £27k
• SHERBORNE CHAMBER CHOIR income £28k
• TEDDINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £45k
• VIVACE CHORUS income £168k

Side by side with its peers

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