BRADFORD FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1141596 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BFCS

Choral singing; education in choral singing/vocal training; public performances

Objects

THE STUDY AND THE PRACTICE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ORDER TO FOSTER PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF SUCH MUSIC BY MEANS OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AND SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE CHARITY THROUGH ITS TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME

Area of benefit: BRADFORD CITY

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 generated a net surplus of £3,014 for the year, with total incoming resources of £93,475 against expenditure of £90,460. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £29,186 are more than adequate to meet their policy of retaining six months of operation costs and overheads. Concert activities generated a deficit of £6,897, which was offset by a non-concert surplus of £9,912.

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 5 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elaine Carol Schackchair
• Colin Richard Penfold
• Dr Christopher John Healey
• Dr Linda Wilson
• Dr Susan Ruth Whittle
• Elizabeth Kingsley
• JOHN PATRICK DISKEN
• James Roger Kuenssberg Kingsley
• Kate Emily Limbert
• MARK CLAYTON
• Sara Jane Daniel
• Sue Hayton
• Susan Elizabeth Holmes
• Susan Margaret Bennett

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).