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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE,MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY IN THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS FORMS THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £431,156, which is 141% of the board's target level of six months' core overhead expenditure. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 audited by WP Audit Services LLP. Discloses 4 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.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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