LADIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH BARBERSHOP SINGERS

Registered charity 1151161 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

LABBS delivers its goal of promotion and education of Barbershop singing by providing support to over 2200 individual members of 60 Barbershop Choruses and 54 registered Quartets. They are actively involved in their local communities. Our member choruses and quartets regularly perform at local community events, including charity events, where they promote Barbershop singing to their audience.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £21,312 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £344,259. This exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £263,802, which represents one year of expenditure. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08380019 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MARTIN, Lisa Anne — director, appointed 28/03/2026not on trustee list
• LIDDELL, Alison — director, appointed 03/01/2025on trustee list
• GRAY, Zelda Louise — director, appointed 23/11/2024on trustee list
• MIDDLETON, Kathryn Lynne — director, appointed 24/03/2024on trustee list
• CALE, Chloe — director, appointed 12/11/2023on trustee list
• MAIR, Kristina Maria — director, appointed 24/08/2022on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Alison Judith — director, appointed 26/03/2022on trustee list
• COOK, Jill — director, appointed 21/03/2020on trustee list
• GALLOWAY, Alison Jean — director, appointed 09/09/2014on trustee list
• MOUNTAIN-TOWN, Elizabeth Christine — secretary, appointed 23/03/2024

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON JEAN GALLOWAY
• Agnes Kerr Philbin
• Alison Judith Thompson
• Alison Liddell
• Chloe Cale
• Elizabeth Mountain-Town
• Jill Cook · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Lynne Middleton
• Kristina Maria Mair
• Zelda Louise Gray

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF BARBERSHOP SINGERS.

• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF BARBERSHOP SINGERS income £306k
• NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.9m
• THE PINK SINGERS income £119k
• THE BARBERS' COMPANY GENERAL CHARITIES income £303k
• LANCASHIRE ASSOCIATION OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS. income £147k
• PETERBOROUGH SINGS! income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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