THE ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Registered charity 295781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of the musical education of the people of Tunbridge Wells through the study and practice of orchestral music.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS THROUGH THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, IN ORDER TO FOSTER PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF SUCH MUSIC BY MEANS OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCE.

Area of benefit: ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds sufficient reserves to pay expenses anticipated ahead of the following season’s ticket sales. Per the trustees' report, there are no funds materially in deficit, and the independent examiner confirmed no material matters were found during the examination.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE PARKER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alexandra Dicken-Woollard
• FRANCES ARMSTRONG
• GALE SMITH
• Graham Stuart King
• Hamish John Mureddu-Reid
• Susan Cumming
• Zoe Hayward

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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