FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 280473 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FHOS

The Folkestone & Hythe Orchestral Society rehearses and performs classical concerts in the South East area of the UK.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE SOCIETY THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE

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: Folkestone and Hythe, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating loss of £3,634 for the year ended 30th April 2026. However, the trustees note that current bank balances stood at £11,227, which they consider sufficient to avoid concern despite the deficit. The filing also discloses a significant transfer of £24,510 to a related trading subsidiary, FHOP Ltd.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEREK KEMPchair
• Aude Marguerite Alecks
• Belinda Pidgen
• Christine Lord
• Graham Aldridge
• Lesley Jane Gould
• Lindsay Powell-Williams
• MARILYN LEWIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Wood

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FOLKESTONE - HYTHE OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY.

• THE FOLKESTONE - HYTHE OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £456k
• SHEFFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £74k
• SETTLE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY income £30k
• EPSOM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY income £26k
• HASTINGS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £147k
• THE BIRKENHEAD OPERATIC SOCIETY TRUST income £271k

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