THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE

Registered charity 283484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COE

The performance and recording of works of classical music.

Objects

TO PROMOTE,IMPROVE AND DEVELOP AESTHETIC EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC BY THE CREATION OF AN ORCHESTRA TO BE CALLED THE "CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE" AND THE PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE BY THE ORCHESTRA OF WORKS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC SO AS TO INCREASE PUBLIC TASTE AND APPRECIATION IN THE SAID ART AND SCIENCE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £5,893 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £3,472,909. The Trustees maintain that the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern, citing healthy reserves and support from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lewis Golden LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01587684

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.

• HOARE, Michael Graham — director, appointed 25/02/2004on trustee list
• JUDD, James Murray — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER READMANchair
• JAMES JUDD
• MICHAEL GRAHAM HOARE

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · France · Germany · Italy · Netherlands · South Korea · Spain · Switzerland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHICHESTER CHAMBER CONCERTS.

• CHICHESTER CHAMBER CONCERTS income £29k
• KANTOS CHAMBER CHOIR income £176k
• ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CHARITABLE TRUST income £51k
• LAWYERS MUSIC income £40k
• CITY OF BIRMINGHAM CHOIR income £72k
• BRIXTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA income £483k

Side by side with its peers

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