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

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY MUSICAL EDUCATION, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, AND SINGING AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE PROVIDED THAT THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE ONLY. AND, AS ANCILLARY TO THE FOREGOING OBJECTS TO HOLD AND PARTICIPATE IN CONCERTS, AND TO PERFORM ORCHESTRAL AND INSTRUMENTAL WORKS, OPERAS, BALLETS AND ENTERTAINMENTS OF THIS KIND AND TO FORM AND MAINTAIN A SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA OF THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDING TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THIS AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ABROAD.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND FOREIGN

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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

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.

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 (3.7%) (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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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORTHING PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED.

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• THE BIRMINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £37k
• NOTTINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LTD income £51k
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Side by side with its peers

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