THE OPERA AWARDS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1151026 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Opera Awards Foundation will advance the education of the public in the art of opera in particular by the provision of bursaries or grants to individuals, groups of individuals or other charitable organisations.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWINGTO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF OPERA IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS OR BURSARIES TO SUCH INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS OR OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME ELECT, ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC CONNECTED WITH THE ART OF THE OPERA AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME ELECT.

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 underwent an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner confirming that no matters caused concern regarding the preparation of the accounts. However, the examiner highlighted a governance failure where the charity failed to hold required formal board meetings for most of the year, relying instead on email communications. Additionally, the accounts disclose that the charity's trading subsidiary, Opera Awards 2022 Limited, reported a loss for the year and had negative capital and reserves.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Opera Awards Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HARRY ABRAHAM HYMANchair
• Anthony Peter Freud · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christina Claudia Bettina Scheppelmann
• Deborah Helen Roslund
• Dr JOHN ALLISON
• Karen Stone
• Leslie Macleod-Miller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof Andrew Charles Robert Jean-Baptiste Corbett-Nolan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sara Naudi
• WILLIAM SAUNDERS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORD OPERA TRUST CIO.

• OXFORD OPERA TRUST CIO income £104k
• THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND 2000 income £4.1m
• WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA UK FOUNDATION income £37k
• CHELSEA OPERA GROUP TRUST income £28k
• FRIENDS OF DIVA OPERA LIMITED income £255k
• LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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