HALLE CONCERTS SOCIETY

Registered charity 223882 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HALLE ORCHESTRA

The Halle Concerts Society maintains and manages the Halle Orchestra. It promotes concerts by the Orchestra and other artists and ensembles in Manchester; presents concerts throughout the UK and overseas in association with local promoters, produces recordings and radio and television broadcasts and undertakes a full programme of educational and outreach work.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ART OF MUSIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY THE GIVING AND ARRANGEMENT OF CONCERTS AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS IS THOUGHT FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group generated a net deficit of £315k for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to depreciation charges largely funded by specific restricted reserves. The Trustees consider the level of expendable reserves to be in line with their stated target, noting that the balance exceeds the target to allow extra headroom to manage challenges and risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Butcher — Chief Executive (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).

• Arts Council England — “Our funders Arts Council England” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Anne Francischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alastair John Richard Nuttall
• Azra Ali · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Simpson
• Cathryn Merryl Webster · trustee of 2 other charities
• Darren Paul Drabble
• Eamonn John Boylan
• Juergen Maier CBE
• Professor Linda Joyce Merrick
• Sharon Amesu

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARLES HALLE FOUNDATION.

• THE CHARLES HALLE FOUNDATION income £242k
• Haslemere Concerts income £102k
• CATHEDRAL CONCERT SOCIETY income £22k
• LONDON HANDEL SOCIETY LIMITED income £768k
• THE MANCHESTER MID-DAY CONCERTS SOCIETY income £69k
• MANCHESTER CHAMBER CONCERTS SOCIETY income £25k

Side by side with its peers

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