SOUTH CHILTERN CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 297583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCCS

To put on public concerts at least three times per year. To provide music to other choirs/organisations from our extensive library, to raise money for other charities/good causes, to commission works of music, to involve children/school choirs in performance,to organise workshops,to encourage public participation in singing

Objects

TO ADVANCE,IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held net assets of £24,868.42, including £13,459.42 in current cash, which the trustees describe as an improved situation reflecting efforts to strengthen reserves. The charity aims to hold approximately 50% of annual expenditure as reserves to support operations. The trustees report that the choir has an active and vibrant membership with limited risks.

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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Gwyn Arch Foundation — “Gwyn Arch Foundation” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Farleychair
• Helen Hobson
• Jane Eyre
• Mary Esslemont
• Raymond Michael Maguire Mr
• Richard Larkin
• Sara Capaldi

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k
• SALFORD CHORAL SOCIETY income £41k
• THE SUTTON COLDFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY income £24k
• TEDDINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £45k
• HUTTON AND SHENFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY income £60k
• S C CHOIRS CIO income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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