THE LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TRUST

Registered charity 297852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LCO, London Chamber Orchestra

The promotion of chamber music and education in chamber music with particular reference to the London Chamber Orchestra.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE ARTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND SINGING AND TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC TASTE AND APPRECIATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THERIN.(2) TO EDUCATE ASSIST IN OR FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF ANY ONE OR MORE PERSONS BEING STUDENTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC WHETHER THE STUDY OR WORK OF ANY SUCH PERSON OR PERSONS IS DEVOTED WHOLLY OR PARTLY TO THE ART OF MUSIC AS EXECUTANT COMPOSER TRANSCRIBER OR WRITER AND WHETHER IN A PROFESSIONAL OR AMATEUR CAPACITY AND WHOM THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SELECT AS BEING IN THEIR OPINION OF ESPECIAL MERIT AND DESERVING OF SUCH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT AS AFORESAID THIS OBJECT BEING FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING THE STANDARDS OF THE ARTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND SINGING AND PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE SAME.(3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG POOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS THEIR WIVES WIDOWS CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS BY SUPPORTING EDUCATING ASSISTING MAINTAINING OR OTHERWISE BENEFITING ANY ONE OR MORE SUCH PERSONS BEING IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE LONDON

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: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Policies the charity declares

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• Complaints policy and procedures
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• Investment
• Risk management
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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 30/12/2024, 244 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 20/09/2023, 143 days after the 30/04/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHALIS TIMINISchair
• Giorgi Kharazishvili
• Hannah Heerema
• Victoria Mary Alice Aspinall

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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