THE ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 230538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC, THE ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society's mission is to promote the love of music. Activities include: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir; Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Youth, Community and Gospel Choirs; CD label RLPOlive; an education and participation programme; and contemporary, jazz and world music alongside rock, pop, comedy and classic films in Philharmonic Hall.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £4,801,000, which is above the stated policy target of £2,500,000. The charity reported an unrestricted deficit of £494,000 for the year, primarily due to the extended closure of its main hall, but maintained a healthy cash balance and net current assets of £1,146,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00088235
• Trading subsidiary: LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC HALL AND EVENTS LTD Companies House 03110903

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Liverpool Philharmonic (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Domingo Hindoyan — Chief 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).

• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “Paul Hamlyn Foundation Endowment” (source page)

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.

• REED, Vanessa Caroline — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• COOKE, Matthew William — director, appointed 23/12/2024on trustee list
• LLOYD, David Richard — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• LEWIS, Thomas William — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• EASTHOPE, Jernice Jodie — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• SMOLEN, Olga — director, appointed 14/11/2023on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Bryan Matthew — director, appointed 05/12/2022on trustee list
• GREGORY, Stephen — director, appointed 14/11/2022on trustee list
• GAHIR, Sameeta Joanne — director, appointed 02/11/2020on trustee list
• HEATON, Stephan — secretary, appointed 06/11/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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 ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 27.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Louise Claire Shepherdchair
• Bryan Johnson
• David Richard Lloyd
• Jernice Jodie Easthope
• Matthew Cooke
• Olga Smolen
• Sameeta Joanne Gahir
• Stephen Raymond Gregory
• Thomas William Lewis
• vanessa Caroline Reed

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £539k
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• PHILHARMONIA LTD income £11.1m
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £28.8m
• ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY LIMITED income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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