GUILDFORD OPERA COMPANY

Registered charity 271484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as G O C - GUILDFORD OPERA

Providing entertainment, education and appreciation of opera, operetta and all forms of music both in concert and fully staged productions to audiences at reasonable prices.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS AND TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS.

Area of benefit: GUILDFORD

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: Elmbridge, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £5,044 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of £32,810. The trustees consider that reserves were maintained at a sufficient level to ensure the charity could continue to operate if it were to suffer losses on a particular production. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause them to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable regulations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GLENYS MARJORIE MAGILL
• Graham John Vincent
• Jacob Anthony Beckmann Adams
• Martyn James Turner
• Pauline Mary Peel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shirley Yvonne Barrett
• Thomas Edward Rycroft · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OPERA STORY.

• THE OPERA STORY income £41k
• GRANGE PARK OPERA income £4.0m
• BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY income £824k
• ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA income £26.9m
• MIDSUMMER OPERA income £28k
• THE MERRY OPERA COMPANY income £178k

Side by side with its peers

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