AURORA ORCHESTRA

Registered charity 1155738 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Aurora aspires to be the world's most creative orchestra, combining the very highest quality of performance with an exceptional breadth of artistic horizons, a passion for adventure, and a trailblazing approach to concert presentation.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £229,188 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with turnover exceeding £2 million for the first time. Unrestricted reserves increased to £431,156, which the Trustees note is 141% of their stated policy target of six months' core overhead expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WP Audit Services LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Mitchell — Artistic Director (source)
• Dame Liz Forgan DBE — Chair (source)
• Nicholas Collon — Principal Conductor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Romain Hochhauser · trustee of 3 other charities
• Christophe Kasolowsky · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dame Liz Forgan
• Ian Karet
• JAMES CAMERON FITZGERALD SEYMOUR LAWRIE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jillian Barker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Alan Laven
• Rachel Elizabeth Mortimer
• Suzanne Szczetnikowicz

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

Operates in: France · Germany · Netherlands · Switzerland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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• THE ENGLISH CONCERT income £1.4m
• BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £8.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.