ENSEMBLE ORQUESTA

Registered charity 1194030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote art for the benefit of the public by the production and performance of early opera; and locating, editing, adapting and publishing early music that is otherwise inaccessible to the general public

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS IN PARTICULAR EARLY OPERA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) THE PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF EARLY OPERA AND SIMILAR MUSIC;(B) LOCATING, TRANSCRIBING, EDITING AND ADAPTING EARLY MUSIC THAT IS OTHERWISE INACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AND; (C) WORKSHOPS AND TUITION.(D) TO DO ALL SUCH LAWFUL ACTS OR THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS OR ANY OF THEM, IN SO FAR AS THAT DOES NOT FORFEIT THE CHARITABLE STATUS OF THE CHARITY.

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: Hastings, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £589 for the year ended 31 October 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £2,690. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory for an early-stage charity, noting that future funding is expected to exceed expenditure with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Carolyn Janet May
• Hugh Stanley Philpott OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachael Louise Morgan
• Sabrina Lesley Shelford Rodriguez · trustee of 2 other charities
• Yehuda Meyer Shapiro

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

Operates in: 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 EARLY OPERA COMPANY LIMITED.

• THE EARLY OPERA COMPANY LIMITED income £67k
• QUESTA income £43k
• THE ORCHESTRA OF THE CITY income £28k
• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• ORCHESTRAS FOR ALL income £853k
• LONDON CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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