LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED

Registered charity 238045 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

PROVISION OF ORCHESTRAL SERVICES AND MUSIC EDUCATION

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Orchestra recorded a record turnover of £14.55m against record expenditure of £14.6m, resulting in a modest overall increase in total reserves of just £30k to £9.19m. Per the trustees' report, the general (risk) reserve stands at £1.513m, which is above the stated policy target of £1.1m, providing security against economic uncertainty despite projected small operating deficits in the coming years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Edward Gardner — Principal Conductor (source)
• Karina Canellakis — Principal Guest Conductor (source)
• Paavo Järvi — Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 4.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE HOGELchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID BURKE · trustee of 2 other charities
• DAVID DOUGLAS BUCKLEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• DEBORAH DOLCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Whitehouse
• Emily Benn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jamie EMEKA AMAFAMUNA Njoku-Goodwin
• Jesus Herrera
• Kate Birchall
• Mark Christopher Vines · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michelle Crowe Hernandez
• Neil Westreich
• Simon Burke
• Simon Carrington
• Simon Estell
• Sir Nigel Boardman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tania Mazzetti
• Yuen Minn Majoe

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Greenwich · Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE income £3.8m
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £28.8m
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS income £167k
• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• PHILHARMONIA LTD income £11.1m

Side by side with its peers

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