BANSTEAD MUSICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 270480 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CECILIA CHORUS

THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ORDER TO FOSTER THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF SUCH MUSIC BY MEANS OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCE. WITH REGARD TO THE LATTER, AT LEAST 3 CONCERTS PER ANNUM ARE GIVEN.

Objects

THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ORDER TO FOSTER THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF SUCH MUSIC BY MEANS OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net cash profit of £1,239.35 for the year ending 20 June 2026, with total receipts of £63,194.12 against total payments of £62,492.47. The charity holds unrestricted reserves (cash and investment assets) of £15,872.38, which the filing notes are retained for its own use. The Treasurer's report highlights a shortfall in membership numbers and notes that the Autumn Fundraiser was cancelled, impacting income.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 23/05/2024, 23 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 19/06/2023, 50 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Joneschair
• Dr Ulrike Elisabeth Hotopp
• James Graham Little
• Kirsty Annessa Wyatt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Patricia Bowes
• Paula Joy Rosalind Abreu
• STEPHEN OLIVER

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

Operates in: Surrey · Sutton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• KENDAL CHORAL SOCIETY income £14k
• BEDFORD CHORAL SOCIETY income £35k
• Chester Music and Theatre Company income £29k
• KINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k
• CIRENCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY income £26k
• ASHTEAD CHORAL SOCIETY income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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