BROCKHAM CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 284300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The choir's activities of rehearsals and performances are focused on Dorking. Covid restrictions in 2020 forced the suspension of meeting together, but activities resumed in September 2021 with an excellent performance of Handel's Messiah in December 2021.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE SOCIETY SHALL SHALL BE PRIMARILY THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC AND ALSO THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCE THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND IN OTHER WAYS DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE SOCIETY.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mole Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £2,968 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing from £24,360 to £21,392. The trustees confirm that the remaining general reserve is sufficient to meet their stated policy of holding funds equivalent to 50-100% of annual concert expenditure. There are no disclosed material uncertainties or going concern issues.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Surrey County Council — “Our website has been funded by a grant from Surrey County Council.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Stridechair
• BRIONY BOWEN
• Graham Paul Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICK HANDS-CLARKE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• DORCHESTER CHORAL SOCIETY income £30k
• BINGHAM AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY income £26k
• DONCASTER CHORAL SOCIETY income £21k
• BRIXTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA income £483k
• CRICKHOWELL CHORAL SOCIETY income £35k
• BRISTOL BACH CHOIR income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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