SINFONIETTA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

Registered charity 255095 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON SINFONIETTA

The London Sinfonietta exists to present dynamic performances of the best contemporary music to the highest standard, taking risks in commissioning new works and incubating new talent while always challenging, inspiring and engaging audiences, project participants of all ages and diverse communities locally, nationally and internationally.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small surplus of £1,031 on General Funds and holds unrestricted reserves (Revenue Reserve) of £4,685. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, supported by secured income and expected cash flows, despite a reduction in Arts Council England grant funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MGR Weston Kay LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The London Sinfonietta’s legacy is magically both resuscitated and renewed in one evening seenandheard-international.com · 13/06/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00926551

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.

• SPOONER, Justin — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• KOCI, Arber — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• VAN DE WIEL, Mark — director, appointed 23/04/2024not on trustee list
• REID, Stephen Ashton — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• SWEET, Fay — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Anne Fiona — director, appointed 20/04/2021on trustee list
• THOMAS, James Alexander — director, appointed 09/12/2019on trustee list
• GILL, Timothy Edward — director, appointed 17/09/2019on trustee list
• BASU, Sudeep — director, appointed 10/06/2019on trustee list
• KNIGHT, Kathryn Elisabeth — director, appointed 10/06/2019on trustee list
• BURKE, Andrew William — director, appointed 10/03/2008on trustee list
• DAVIES, Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 09/12/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% 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: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE FIONA THOMPSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW WILLIAM BURKE
• Arber Koci
• Fay Sweet
• James Alexander Thomas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin Spooner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Elisabeth Knight
• Mark van de Wiel
• Stephen Reid
• Sudeep Basu
• Timothy Edward Gill

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MRS A FIONA THOMPSON — trustee here and at THE FENTON ARTS TRUST

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEW SINFONIA.

• NEW SINFONIA income £203k
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £28.8m
• LONDON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL income £156k
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS income £167k
• CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA LIMITED income £1.2m
• BRITTEN SINFONIA LTD income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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