STROUD CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1198620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

STROUD CHORAL SOCIETY is an educational/arts charity that provides choral singing for adults and children committed to enjoying choral singing and agree to its rules. It performs two main concerts with orchestra a year and at least two subsidiary concerts at Christmas and the Summer. It rehearses every week of the year from September to June, roughly following school terms.

Objects

TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND RECITALS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's finances are in a strong position, having achieved a surplus for the year. The organization maintains unrestricted reserves of £43,133.13, which provides a buffer against the net deficit incurred on its concert activities.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Dyson Trust — “with thanks to the The Dyson Trust for their financial support.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Kendall
• Deborah Joan Smith
• Dr Frances Margaret Wade
• Francis Michael Gobey
• Jane Elizabeth Wilmore BA
• Jonquil McCullagh
• Kim Richardson
• Leonora Rozee
• MYLES PATRICK ROBINSON
• Margaret Grimshaw BA PGCE
• Prof. Martin Woodhead · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Williams

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

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