THE SITTINGBOURNE ORPHEUS CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 274005 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORPHEUS, SOCS

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

Objects

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

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE SITTINGBOURNE AND THE VICINITY

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

Latest income
£22k
Latest spending
£23k
Registered
1977

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2025

  • Volunteers: 5

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2024

  • Volunteers: 85
  • Government income: £850 — grants £850 (2); 3% of the £29,780 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£22k£23k
31/07/2024£30k£20k
31/07/2023£19k£23k
31/07/2022£15k£14k
31/07/2021£11k£4k

Common questions

Who funds THE SITTINGBOURNE ORPHEUS CHORAL SOCIETY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SITTINGBOURNE ORPHEUS CHORAL SOCIETY as a grant recipient include THE JOSEPH AND LILIAN SULLY FOUNDATION, THE BORROWS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE FREDDIE GREEN AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, QUEENBOROUGH FISHERY TRUST.

Known funders

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