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.

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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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Gemes · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S LIMITED.

• ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN'S LIMITED income £337k
• OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TRUST income £3.1m
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
• ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
• GABRIELI income £994k
• ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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