NATIONAL OPERA STUDIO

Registered charity 274755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The National Opera Studio is engaged by the UK's leading Opera Companies and Arts Council England to provide individually designed, high quality professional training for singers and repetiteurs who have the potential to become the leading artists of their generation.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a very small surplus of £86 in its General Fund for the year, while reporting an overall deficit of £186,692 due to planned capital investments and depreciation. Free and available reserves stood at £199,505, which is close to the trustees' stated target of £200,000 (six months' core expenditure less confirmed income).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01332955

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PICKARD, David Keith — director, appointed 01/07/2026not on trustee list
• MISKIMMON, Mary Annilese — director, appointed 08/05/2026on trustee list
• O'NEILL, Sally Ann — director, appointed 05/02/2026not on trustee list
• CREED, Nicola Katharine — director, appointed 05/02/2026not on trustee list
• HERBERT, Nicholas, Lord — director, appointed 10/09/2025not on trustee list
• CRABTREE, Sarah Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• CANNING, Laura Frances — director, appointed 04/12/2023on trustee list
• GILLULEY, Paul Francis, Dr — director, appointed 16/05/2023on trustee list
• DANA-HAERI, Dori Zohreh — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• ALLAN, Nicholas Timothy — director, appointed 19/06/2019on trustee list
• LANGRIDGE, Stephen Maitland — director, appointed 25/03/2019on trustee list
• MEARS, Oliver — director, appointed 27/02/2017on trustee list
• REEDIJK, Alexander — director, appointed 01/02/2006not on trustee list
• SIMPSON, John Nicholas — secretary, appointed 09/04/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Timothy Allanchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ALEXANDER REEDIJK OBE FRC
• David Pickard OBE
• Dori Dana-Haeri
• Dr Paul Francis Gilluley
• LAURA CANNING
• Lord Nicholas Herbert CBE PC · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mary Annilese Miskimmon
• Nicola Creed DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver Mears
• Sally O'Neill MVO FCA
• Sarah Crabtree
• Stephen Langridge

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Leeds City · Scotland · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• BRITISH YOUTH OPERA income £446k
• GARSINGTON OPERA LIMITED income £9.9m
• ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA income £26.9m
• WELSH NATIONAL OPERA LIMITED income £18.0m
• ENGLISH TOURING OPERA LIMITED income £3.7m
• DORSET OPERA income £884k

Side by side with its peers

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