THE ENGLISH CONCERT

Registered charity 271765 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as P E C CONCERTS LIMITED

To promote, maintain, improve & advance education & the encouragement of the arts, particularly by the presentation of musical, performances & educational activities. The charity arranges concerts & musical performances & provides orchestra services to enable concerts & recordings to take place.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BY THE PRESENTATION OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND LECTURE-DEMONSTRATIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC, AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £66,574 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £515,378. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated minimum reserves policy target of £150,000, indicating a strong financial position. The auditors confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Malthouse & Company Chartered Accountants. 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• 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)

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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alfonso Leal del Ojo — Chief Executive (source)
• George Burnett — Chair (source)
• Harry Bicket — Artistic Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts and Humanities Research Council — “Trusts and Foundations Arts and Humanities Research Council” (source page)
• The English Concert in America — “Trusts and Foundations Arts and Humanities Research Council The English Concert in America” (source page)
• The Folkington Trust — “The English Concert in America The Folkington Trust” (source page)
• The Foyle Foundation — “The Folkington Trust The Foyle Foundation” (source page)
• Maria Björnson Memorial Fund — “The Foyle Foundation Maria Björnson Memorial Fund” (source page)
• John and Sally Reeve Charitable Trust — “Maria Björnson Memorial Fund John and Sally Reeve Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Music Reprieval Trust — “John and Sally Reeve Charitable Trust The Music Reprieval Trust” (source page)
• Big Give — “Handel for All supporters Trusts and Foundations Big Give” (source page)
• Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity — “Big Give · The English Concert in America · Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity” (source page)
• Reed Foundation — “Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity · Reed Foundation” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ALAN STUART HARLEY
• Dr Hans Peter Bjoern Kerber · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr RICHARD JAMES ARTHUR GOLDING
• GEORGE BARNETT BURNETT
• Ian Marinos Graystone Andrews
• JOSEPH SMOUHA KC · trustee of 3 other charities
• Janet Catherine Reeve
• Vittoria Isabella de Sabata

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL.

• THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL income £208k
• CHILDREN'S CONCERTS income £141k
• LONDON CONCERT CHOIR income £93k
• ENGLISH SCHOOLS ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR income £95k
• THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION income £245k
• ENGLISH CHAMBER CHOIR income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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