BRISTOL CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1157699 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rehearsing and Performing Choral Concerts, generally in the Bristol areaEncouraging young people to enjoy Choral music, through our Apprenticeship scheme and Schools Outreach ProgrammeNote Bristol Choral Society was previously registered as charity number 266472. This new charity has adopted the same Rules and Constitution, activities, membership and officers.

Objects

TO EDUCATE ITS MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC, AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY, BY THE PRESENTATION OF CHORAL CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.

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 reported an overall deficit of £15,822 for the year, leaving unrestricted reserves at £51,825. The trustees note that the concert programme proved financially challenging, resulting in a substantial concert deficit that was only partially offset by other income sources. Despite the deficit, the charity remains in a viable position with sufficient cash reserves to continue operations.

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 4 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pamela Moultchair
• Angela Markham
• Claudia McConnell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edmund Davis
• Elizabeth Grace Elliott
• JOHN SLOMAN
• Maroussia Rochigneux
• Nathan Gerby
• Rachel Hills
• Robert Convey

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRISTOL ENSEMBLE LTD.

• THE BRISTOL ENSEMBLE LTD income £713k
• GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY income £175k
• BRISTOL MUSIC TRUST income £14.4m
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY LIMITED income £505k
• HERTFORDSHIRE CHORUS income £123k
• NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CHOIR OF GREAT BRITAIN income £333k

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