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

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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.

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 7.0 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 (2.9%) (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 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 ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED.

• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• GABRIELI income £994k
• PHILHARMONIA CHORUS LIMITED income £251k
• THE LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS income £167k
• THE HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY income £302k
• LONDON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL income £156k

Side by side with its peers

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