GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1168137 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GCS

Gloucester Choral Society performs regular public concerts, and runs regular choral and vocal workshops for our members and the general public, as well as undertaking periodic overseas tours. We run Choral Scholars and Choral Apprentices schemes, designed to support the musical development of local young people, and provide small choral groups to perform for weddings and other events.

Objects

TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND RECITALS

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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Latest income

£175k

Latest spending

£166k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £8,930, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £45,321. This financial position is supported by reduced expenditure on orchestras and a successful benefactors' scheme, which offset disappointing ticket revenue. The trustees maintain tight control over expenditure to progressively build reserves toward a target of £50,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“Continuing disappointing ticket revenue was offset by reduced spending on orchestras and by a successful relaunch of a benefactors’ scheme.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £45k; policy: around £50k)

“The Society’s policy “… to progressively build up reserves to around £50k, which sum represents about half of typical turnover” has nearly been achieved” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Investment
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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Register events

Received assets from another charity (01/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Caroline Brigid McGaughey
Eleanor Kercher
Jennifer Anne Newbold Bury
Kate Whitson
Mary Gellhorn
Mary Jacks
Rev RICHARD CLUTTERBUCK · trustee of 1 other charity
Rob Riley
Simon Andrew Draper
Sophy Margaret Darlow

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£175k	£166k
30/06/2024	£64k	£65k
30/06/2023	£55k	£75k
30/06/2022	£113k	£111k
30/06/2021	£33k	£10k

Common questions

Is GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £8,930, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £45,321. This financial position is supported by reduced expenditure on orchestras and a successful benefactors' scheme, which offset disappointing ticket revenue. The trustees maintain tight control over expenditure to progressively build reserves toward a target of £50,000.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE DISCWORLD FOUNDATION	1	£180k
THE LORD FARINGDON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£16k
The Goldsmiths' Foundation	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL CHORAL SOCIETY.

BRISTOL CHORAL SOCIETY income £162k
WIMBLEDON CHORAL SOCIETY income £116k
GLOUCESTER HISTORY TRUST income £218k
VIVACE CHORUS income £168k
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
DURHAM CHORAL SOCIETY income £137k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY	£175k	—	below	—	no doubt
BRISTOL CHORAL SOCIETY FY2025	£162k	—	below	—	no doubt
WIMBLEDON CHORAL SOCIETY FY2025	£116k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GLOUCESTER HISTORY TRUST FY2025	£218k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
VIVACE CHORUS FY2025	£168k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED FY2025	£285k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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