YORKSHIRE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR LIMITED

Registered charity 1123716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the Society shall be to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of choral and instrumental music in all its aspects by the presentation of public concerts; and for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such purposes as shall be exclusively charitable as the Committee may from time to time decide

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE YORKSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £14,310 for the year, with total incoming resources of £60,228 against expenditure of £45,918. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £59,944, which is above the stated policy target range of £11,480 to £22,959. The trustees confirm the charity is in a good position with net current assets of £72,944, allowing confidence in managing future uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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
• Volunteer management

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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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Derek Howellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Antony Osborne
• Diane Elizabeth Mary Heath
• John Whelan
• Karen Briggs
• Stephanie Joy Woodhead
• Wendy Nutton

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR.

• LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £95k
• COVENTRY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £26k
• YORK MUSICAL SOCIETY income £69k
• WEST SUSSEX PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £32k
• THE TONBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £59k
• TEDDINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £45k

Side by side with its peers

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