CHELSEA OPERA GROUP TRUST

Registered charity 247438 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C O G

The primary object of the Chelsea Opera Group Trust is "the advancement of musical education in general and in particular by sponsoring managing and providing financial assistance for performances of operatic or other musical works..."The Trust makes grants to the Chelsea Opera group in furtherance of the primary object.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSICAL EDUCATION IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR BY SPONSORING, MANAGING AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL OR OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR PERFORMANCES OF OPERATIC AND OTHER MUSICAL WORKS AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, ETON COLLEGE, WINCHESTER COLLEGE AND ELSEWHERE AND BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES IN SUCH PERFORMANCES FOR CONDUCTORS, SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS TO OBTAIN VALUABLE EXPERIENCE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£28k

Latest spending

£29k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is led by unpaid volunteers with no permanent employees or physical assets. The filing notes the sad loss of the Chairman just before the year end. Subsequent to the year end, two new Trustees were appointed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“COG is led and managed entirely by unpaid but experienced volunteers, via a management committee. There are no permanent employees or physical assets.” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2024

Volunteers: 1
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2023

Volunteers: 20
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

CHRISTOPHER KEY PATEY MBE
John Adam Sutcliffe
Nigel Malcolm Tooze · trustee of 1 other charity
ROBERT WILLIAM MONTGOMERY
Stefan Joseph Bown

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£28k	£29k
30/09/2024	£30k	£18k
30/09/2023	£27k	£44k
30/09/2022	£29k	£36k
30/09/2021	£18k	£7k

Common questions

Is CHELSEA OPERA GROUP TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is led by unpaid volunteers with no permanent employees or physical assets. The filing notes the sad loss of the Chairman just before the year end. Subsequent to the year end, two new Trustees were appointed. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CHELSEA OPERA GROUP TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHELSEA OPERA GROUP TRUST as a grant recipient include THE MARCHUS TRUST, THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MARCHUS TRUST	FY2025	£2k
THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£1k	The Arts
THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k	The Arts

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST	2	£12k
THE BLAKEY FOUNDATION	2	£10k
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	1	£300k
THE FOYLE FOUNDATION	1	£200k
PETER STORMONTH DARLING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£56k
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£55k
THE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER FOUNDATION	1	£50k
Q CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£30k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORD OPERA TRUST CIO.

OXFORD OPERA TRUST CIO income £104k
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC TRUST income £1.1m
ENSEMBLE ORQUESTA income £68k
THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
CHELSEA ACADEMY FOUNDATION income £175k
CUMBRIA OPERA GROUP income £86k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CHELSEA OPERA GROUP TRUST	£28k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
OXFORD OPERA TRUST CIO FY2025	£104k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC TRUST FY2025	£1.1m	—	within	—	no doubt
ENSEMBLE ORQUESTA FY2025	£68k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA FY2025	£392k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHELSEA ACADEMY FOUNDATION FY2025	£175k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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