STEEL CITY CHORISTERS

Registered charity 1195909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Steel City Choristers is an exciting and innovative choir of children and adults that is rooted in the English choral tradition. We offer our choristers a free first-class musical education and serve a wide range of communities in and around Sheffield through a diverse programme of choral concerts, services and projects. We believe in the power of music to change lives.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THOSE LIVING IN OR EDUCATED IN SHEFFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC AND IN PARTICULAR CHORAL MUSIC, PRIMARILY BUT NOTEXCLUSIVELY BYA) CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS TO SING ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER TO THE HIGHEST MUSICAL STANDARDS; ANDB) PROMOTING AND DELIVERING MUSICAL AND CHORAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC OR ETHNIC BACKGROUND AND IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR PRIOR EXPERIENCE.2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AND IN PARTICULAR CHORAL MUSIC AND RELATED ACTIVITIES IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS PARTICULARLY IN SHEFFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PRESENTING PUBLIC PERFORMANCES AND PRODUCING DIGITAL CONTENT, PARTICULARLY FOR COMMUNITIES THAT WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS TO CHORAL MUSIC.

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: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £2,433 for the year, with total income of £73,046 falling short of total expenditure of £75,479. Despite this, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £20,000, which the trustees state is equivalent to approximately six months of core operating costs. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, though they note this depends on the continued voluntary provision of management services.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Steel City Choristers (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Education Foundation — “We are grateful for the generous support of: Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Education Foundation” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katherine Caroechair
• Angela Holman
• Chris Caroe
• Professor Jeremy Dawson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

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 CITY CHORUS.

• CITY CHORUS income £41k
• THE SHEFFIELD PHILHARMONIC CHORUS income £51k
• SHEFFIELD ORATORIO CHORUS income £41k
• THE CITY OF CHESTER MALE VOICE CHOIR income £45k
• STROUD CHORAL SOCIETY income £74k
• CHESTER ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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