Three Choirs Festival Limited

Registered charity 204609 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION LTD, THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL

To produce a music festival to the highest standards, on a rotational basis in the cities and surrounding area of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester, augmented by outreach and participation activity in the local community.

Objects

2.1 The Objects of the TCF are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education by the encouragement of the arts, including the arts of singing and music, drama, mime and dance, and to formulate, prepare and establish schemes therefor provided that all Objects of the TCF shall be of a charitable nature.

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTER WORCESTER HEREFORD

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: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an operating loss of £21,659 for the year ended 30 September 2025, noting that while less than anticipated, the scale of the operational loss is not sustainable in the long-term. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £204,000, which the trustees consider to be at the level required by their reserves policy of holding a minimum of three months' operating costs (approximately £100,000).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ballards LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00580176

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.

• DAVIES, Alexandra Catherine — director, appointed 15/09/2023on trustee list
• WOODD, Charles Frederick Basil — director, appointed 23/03/2023on trustee list
• LAM, Man Pui Billy — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• O'CARROLL, Katharine — director, appointed 04/03/2022on trustee list
• PRIOR, Allen Edward — director, appointed 03/12/2021not on trustee list
• BELSHAW, Naomi Sian, Dr — director, appointed 07/01/2021on trustee list
• MARLOW, Alison Victoria — director, appointed 06/11/2020on trustee list
• HERRIOT, Bruce William Allan, Dr — director, appointed 18/04/2020on trustee list
• COOPER, Bejamin Charles Julian — director, appointed 28/09/2018on trustee list
• FRANCIS, David Edward — secretary, appointed 06/12/2024

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (49% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Naomi Sian Belshawchair
• Alexandra Catherine Davies
• Alison Victoria Marlow
• Allen Edward Prior FCII
• Bejamin Cooper
• CHARLES FREDERICK BASIL WOODD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Bruce Herriot
• Katharine O'Carroll
• Man Pui Billy Lam · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Worcestershire

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 EXETER FESTIVAL CHORUS.

• EXETER FESTIVAL CHORUS income £54k
• CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS income £182k
• WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY income £81k
• HURST FESTIVAL income £50k
• KINGS LYNN FESTIVAL CHORUS income £53k
• FESTIVAL OF LIFE income £897k

Side by side with its peers

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