BRITTEN SINFONIA LTD

Registered charity 291245 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMBRIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LIMITED, EAST ANGLIAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Britten Sinfonia is an orchestra.The objectives of the charity are:To be the international benchmark for the chamber orchestra.To inspire people with fresh and exciting performances of great music from Albinoni to Zappa.To appeal to diverse cultural groups, both through the work it presents and the way it is presented.To promote the appreciation of music.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OR SCIENCE OF MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PERFORMING AND PROVIDING PUBLIC CONCERT RECITALS AND LECTURES, AND BY PROVIDING EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGE AREA AND IN EAST ANGLIA

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £220,700 for the year, resulting in a decline in total unrestricted reserves from £567,970 to £346,646. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves are expected to reduce further to approximately three to four months of core operating overheads by March 2028, though they maintain that the company has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01486893

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Shoël Stadlen — Marketing and Communications Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• SABBEN-CLARE, Matthew James — director, appointed 17/04/2026not on trustee list
• DE VILE, Rosamond Anne — director, appointed 25/03/2025not on trustee list
• ZEMAN, Natalya Rebecca Valerie — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• TUS, Andrew George Philip — director, appointed 15/02/2024not on trustee list
• PARRIS, Emily Anne Nsemere — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• JEFFRIES, Richard Mark — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• TRUMPER, Rebecca Rozanne — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• NEDUNGADI, Sreeja — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• BOWEN, Meurig — secretary, appointed 01/08/2020

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew George Philip Tusachair
• Emily Anne Nsemere Parris
• Matthew James Sabben-Clare
• Natalya Zeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Rozanne Trumper
• Richard Mark Jeffries
• Rosamond Anne De Vile
• Sreeja Nedungadi

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA LIMITED.

• CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA LIMITED income £1.2m
• PHILHARMONIA LTD income £11.1m
• KENT SINFONIA income £27k
• THE BIRMINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £37k
• Sinfonia Smith Square income £3.1m
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY LIMITED income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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