THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 200024 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as D'OYLY CARTE OPERA TRUST LIMITED

The principal activities and objects of the charity company are the production of Gilbert and Sullivan and other Operas for nationwide tours and the raising of funds to support these. The charity has a music hire dept. hiring musical scores to amateur societies and education institutes. In addition the charity sells merchandise.

Objects

1) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF OPERATIC OR OTHER MUSICAL WORKS AND CULTIVATION OF PUBLIC INTEREST AND TASTE IN OPERA MUSIC AND SINGING.2) THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF MUSICIANS AND SINGERS AND THEIR ASSISTANCE IN DISTRESSED CIRCUMSTANCES.3) THE MAKING OF GRANTS OR LOANS TO THE BRIDGET D'OYLY CARTE LTD.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £72,963 for the year, resulting in a significant decline in total reserves from £99,449 to £26,486. Unrestricted reserves fell to £14,454, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to three months' expenditure. Despite this reduction, the trustees remain satisfied that the charity can continue as a 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 5 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 03/11/2022, 3 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00682766

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GRIST, Paul — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
• LENTON, Sarah, Rev — director, appointed 10/09/2020on trustee list
• TRIPP, Michael Howard — director, appointed 10/09/2020on trustee list
• MARTIN, Ian Seph — secretary, appointed 28/02/2013

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Tripp
• Paul Grist
• Rev Sarah Lenton

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 D'OYLY CARTE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE D'OYLY CARTE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• DUCHY OPERA TRUST LIMITED income £38k
• OPERA NORTH LIMITED income £18.8m
• GROSVENOR LIGHT OPERA COMPANY income £36k
• MID WALES OPERA LIMITED income £183k
• THE FRIENDS OF DORSET OPERA income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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