CUMBRIA RURAL CHOIRS CIO

Registered charity 1168081 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRC, Cumbria Singers

Bring together small choirs and individual singers across Cumbria, especially the northern half, to perform large scale works usually with professional musicians/orchestra.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC BY THE PRESENTATION OF 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 made a small surplus for the year and maintains a healthy bank balance exceeding its minimum reserve target. The trustees have set a policy to hold unrestricted reserves equivalent to six months of running costs to cover emergencies and commission new work. Principal risks identified include insufficient member recruitment and the last-minute unavailability of the conductor.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Ida Carroll Trust — “Some of our recent Funders: Ida Carroll Trust” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr MARGARET RICHESchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ANN MARGARET BISHOP
• CLIVE NIGEL RICHES · trustee of 4 other charities
• David John Wood
• Dr Carl Thomson
• Felicity Payne
• GEOFFREY Tilson LIndsay BOWLES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gerad Owen Kelly
• Gislint Harvey
• MARGARET FERRIBY

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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