LONDON CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA

Registered charity 1129768 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Orchestra objectives are (a) the performance and promotion of contemporary music to an ever-wider audience in diverse venues and genres; and (b) the education and employment of young composers and young musicians at the start of their careers through workshops and performance opportunities on a professional basis.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC, THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES; AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £92,585 for the year ended 31st August 2025, primarily due to a 45% decline in live activity revenues. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern in a healthy financial state with unrestricted funds of £29,474 and total net assets of £46,323.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Brooks & Co.. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• London Contemporary Orchestra: Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen- Southbank Centre, London thereviewshub.com · 30/04/2026

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mazdak Sanii
• NICHOLAS MUMBY

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LIMITED.

• THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £28.8m
• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ENDOWMENT TRUST income £1.1m
• LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £14.6m
• THE LONDON MOZART PLAYERS TRUST income £1.3m
• ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S LIMITED income £337k

Side by side with its peers

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