NATIONAL OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1171216 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16998510 · Wikipedia · also known as NODA

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROMOTING AND IMPROVING THE ART OF OPERA, MUSIC AND THEATRE, TO STIMULATE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF SUCH ARTS AND TO GENERALLY TO CULTIVATE THE IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC TASTE IN SUCH ARTS

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PERFORMING ARTS

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: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income surplus of £162,365 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £1,080,796. The trustees state that these current levels of reserves are in line with their policy target of at least one year's expenditure. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £130k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW JOHN MCNICHOLASchair
• Amanda Hall
• Andrew James Spearing-Brown
• Anthony John Evans
• Darren Smith
• David Brammer
• Graham Liverton
• JACQUELINE STEDMAN
• KAY ROWAN
• Kevin Proctor
• Les Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• MATTHEW JAMES HEATON · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAMELA ARMSTRONG
• PETER JOHN OLIVER
• Stuart McCue Dick
• Susan Sampson
• Tessa Davies

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

Operates in: Ireland · Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NOTTINGHAM OPERATIC SOCIETY.

• THE NOTTINGHAM OPERATIC SOCIETY income £611k
• ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA income £26.9m
• WALTON AND WEYBRIDGE AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY income £55k
• THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND OPERATIC SOCIETY income £242k
• OPDA income £538k
• CRANBROOK OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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