WALTHAM SINGERS

Registered charity 1153650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Waltham Singers is a mixed-voice adult choir of around 90 singers based in Chelmsford and attracts members from a wide area. It has a reputation for high standards of performance across a wide range of classical music extending from the Renaissance to contemporary. The choir presents around four concerts each year at venues including Chelmsford Cathedral, Great Waltham Church and Saffron Hall.

Objects

TO PROMOTE,IMPROVE,DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN HIGH STANDARDS OF MUSIC,PARTICULARLY SINGING,THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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 total choir funds decreased from £9,135.78 to £6,701.11 during the period, reflecting a deficit of £2,435.75. The trustees describe this as a difficult financial year, noting that membership numbers remain lower than pre-pandemic levels.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen James Readingschair
• Andrew Myles Cripps · trustee of 1 other charity
• Godfrey George Jenkinson
• JANE CATHERINE JENKINSON
• Jemma Elizabeth Parker
• Jill Elizabeth Readings · trustee of 1 other charity
• KATE HANSON
• MIKE WALL
• SABINE NUSSEY
• Sarah Elizabeth Moran

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

Operates in: Essex

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