The Choral Evensong Trust

Registered charity 1190208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHORALEVENSONG.ORG, THE CHORALEVENSONG.ORG TRUST

The Choral Evensong Trust (Charity no. 1190208) exists to see an increase of attendance at Choral Evensong services in all abbeys, cathedrals, chapels, churches, and minsters, and to celebrate its three pillars: [i] its uniqueness as a British tradition, [ii] its provision of free music in communities, and [iii] its nurturing of musical training for young singers.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF CHORAL SERVICES AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER APPROPRIATE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Choral Evensong Trust ended the year with unrestricted cash reserves of £21,120, having received £47,243 in donations and spent £37,494 on grants and administration. The accounts were independently examined with no material matters of concern reported by the examiner.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 04/11/2025, 4 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 29/05/2024, 211 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sian Fergusonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Alfred Rupert Sheldrake
• Dr Guy Daniel Hayward
• Dr RALPH ALLWOOD MBE, DMus · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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