ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 298389 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCS

The promotion and participation in musical concerts

Objects

The Charity’s objects are restricted to the promotion, maintenance, improvement and advancement of education for the benefit of the public, particularly by the encouragement of the art of choral music in all its aspects by teaching musical works and the presentation of public choral concerts.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £19,032 from ongoing activities, with total unrestricted funds carried forward amounting to £578,454. Per the trustees' report, the level of reserves is considered sufficient to meet liabilities as they fall due, and the trustees judge the charity to be a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~25.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (57% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Dartchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALISON ANNE CATTERMOLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Kenneth Hartree
• Andrew McGowan
• Charlotte Young MBE
• Hannah Chung-Yun Li
• John Alan Coe
• Kevin Skinner

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

Operates in: City Of London · City Of Westminster · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• KIDDERMINSTER CHORAL SOCIETY income £78k
• PANGBOURNE CHORAL SOCIETY income £24k
• TRING CHORAL SOCIETY income £35k
• ROYSTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k
• ILKLEY CHORAL SOCIETY income £27k
• KINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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