BRIXTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Registered charity 1181169 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities description

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE ART OF MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND TO PROMOTE, SUSTAIN, AND INCREASE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC, BY PROVIDING PUBLIC CONCERTS AND SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE ORGANISATION, THROUGH ITS BOARD OF 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.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net loss of £18,069 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £26,027. The trustees have adopted a new reserves policy targeting three months of worker payments and one year of fixed costs, but current reserves fall below this target. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the charity can continue to trade viably for the next twelve months.

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 3 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geraldine Glennon
• Henry Little · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hester Warner
• Levon Chilingirian · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marion Schumann

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE.

• THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE income £4.1m
• BRIDGWATER OPERATIC SOCIETY income £91k
• Brixton Community Based Ltd income £47k
• CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR income £72k
• ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CHARITABLE TRUST income £51k
• THE CHELTENHAM BACH CHOIR income £94k

Side by side with its peers

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