IPSWICH GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY

Registered charity 1165408 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan Society is a musical group which performs charity fund-raising concerts during the summer months across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex, with a mixed repertoire ranging from classical music and excerpts from G&S operettas to folk, pop and songs from the musicals. In the autumn of each year the Society puts on a fully staged production of one of the G & S operettas.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSICAL THEATRE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE MUSIC OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, AS WELL AS CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE MEMBERS, THROUGH 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 the charity generated a profit of £6,842.82 for the year ending 31 March 2025, with total income of £36,225.72 against expenditure of £29,382.90. The charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £38,819.39, which exceeds its annual income. The independent examiner confirmed that the financial statements show a true and fair view with no matters requiring attention.

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.

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.

• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Peter Mills
• Karl Francis Hayward-Bradley
• MRS DEBBIE ROGERS
• Rebecca Kirby
• STEPHEN CROMMELIN PUGH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Wiffin

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

Operates in: Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

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