BURGESS HILL CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 276759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Choral Society, we give 2 concerts a year in the local Church which are well-attended by local people. We give free tickets to accompanied under-16s. We have a retiring collection at the end of each concert for a particular charity chosen by the trustees, eg the local hospice.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC, IN THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.

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.

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Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £29,989.89 and total expenditure of £29,100.00 for the year ending 2025-06-30, resulting in a surplus. The trustees report that the society maintains sound membership figures and a sound financial status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 21/06/2024, 52 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mrs Jane Lengchair
• Christine O'Connell
• JOHN NEWTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanna Kyndt
• Judith Conway
• MARGARET SHELDON
• Martin Collett

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEXHILL CHORAL SOCIETY.

• BEXHILL CHORAL SOCIETY income £28k
• BIRKENHEAD CHORAL SOCIETY income £28k
• THE BURGESS HILL MUSICAL THEATRE SOCIETY income £38k
• HAILSHAM CHORAL SOCIETY income £29k
• SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k
• TRING CHORAL SOCIETY income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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