READING OPERATIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 297402 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A local amateur operatic society performing stage musicals/operetta, and concerts in aid of local charities.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC ARTS TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ARTS, TO ASSIST AND FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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.

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Registered contact address: Bracknell Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, with expenditure of £52,245 exceeding income of £40,560. Consequently, unrestricted reserves decreased from £28,060 to £16,375. Despite this reduction, the trustees confirm the society remains a viable concern with sufficient reserves to deliver its planned programme.

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 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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 20/07/2025, 262 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reading Operatic Society (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lewis Jordan Donnellychair
• Cleo Emmeline King
• David Anthony Parsonson
• Jack Simpson
• Kim Hollamby
• Lucy Elizabeth Seymour

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Oxfordshire · Reading · Wokingham

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST WICKHAM OPERATIC SOCIETY.

• WEST WICKHAM OPERATIC SOCIETY income £144k
• THE DEWSBURY COLLEGIANS AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY income £37k
• TINKERS FARM OPERA income £47k
• THE WOMBWELL AND DISTRICT AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY income £35k
• CHELMSFORD AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY income £120k
• BRIDGWATER OPERATIC SOCIETY income £91k

Side by side with its peers

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