BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Registered charity 208520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOURNEMOUTH ORCHESTRAS, THE WESTERN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY LTD

Provision of Orchestral performances, education and community projects nationally and internationally.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £87,745 for the year, driven by increased ticket income and significant Orchestra Tax Relief. However, the underlying trading position showed a deficit of £1,542,568, and the trustees note that future budgets are dependent on continued funding streams and tax relief rates. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4.96 million, which the trustees consider prudent given the challenging economic climate and budgeted deficits for the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Wigglesworth — Chief Conductor (source)
• Chloé Van Soeterstède — Principal Guest Conductor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Calleva Foundation — “The Calleva Foundation, in memory of Jack Butt” (source page)
• The Pointer Family Trust — “The Pointer Family Trust” (source page)
• The Michael and Ilse Katz Foundation — “The Michael and Ilse Katz Foundation” (source page)
• The Valentine Charitable Trust — “The Valentine Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust — “The Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Cressy Foundation — “The Cressy Foundation” (source page)
• The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust — “The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Foundation — “The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• The Woodward Charitable Trust — “The Woodward Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Duncreggan Trust — “The Duncreggan Trust” (source page)
• The Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation — “The Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation” (source page)
• The Pitt-Rivers Charitable Trust — “The Pitt-Rivers Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Dunford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Flockhart · trustee of 2 other charities
• Annette D'Abreo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Paige
• Deborah Leask
• Diane Kathryn Grannell
• Emma Chamberlain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Swift
• Jonathan Clark
• Matthew King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sonia Brenda Mills · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Bristol City · Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · East Sussex · Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS.

• THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS income £167k
• OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TRUST income £3.1m
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• ALINA ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £150k
• CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £8.6m
• ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S LIMITED income £337k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.