THE SIXTEEN

Registered charity 326917 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects for which the Company is established are: To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts and in particular the arts of orchestral, choral and other music by the organisation and/or presentation of concerts and recitals of high educational and artistic merit.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR (AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING), THE ARTS OF ORCHESTRAL, CHORAL AND OTHER MUSIC BY THE ORGANISATION AND/OR PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND RECITALS OF HIGH EDUCATIONAL AND ARTISTIC MERIT, CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND RECORDINGS, AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE COUNCIL OF THE COMPANY 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £17,134 for the year ended 31 October 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £210,636, which is significantly above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £110,000. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01930741
• Trading subsidiary: THE SIXTEEN PRODUCTIONS LTD Companies House 04252277 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council England — “Trusts & Foundations Arts Council England” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SINGER, Adam — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• CARRINGTON, Olivia — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• PICKETT, Stephen Reginald — director, appointed 29/06/2021on trustee list
• SMITH, Christopher Robert, Lord — director, appointed 12/02/2013on trustee list
• BRIGGS, Michael Townley Featherstone, Sir — director, appointed 11/06/2012on trustee list
• PARKER, Keith Tony — director, appointed 01/04/2007on trustee list
• PRICE, Richard Lloyd Duffield, Managing Director — directoron trustee list
• BARDA, Robin John Blackmore — directoron trustee list
• CHRISTOPHERS, Richard Henry Tudor — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBIN JOHN BLACKMORE BARDAchair
• Adam Singer
• KEITH TONY PARKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORD CHRISTOPHER ROBERT SMITH
• Olivia Carrington
• RICHARD HENRY TUDOR CHRISTOPHERS
• RICHARD LLOYD DUFFIELD PRICE
• SIR MICHAEL BRIGGS
• Stephen Reginald Pickett

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

Operates in: France · Ireland · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Poland · Scotland · Spain · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORD CHAMBER MUSIC FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• OXFORD CHAMBER MUSIC FOUNDATION LIMITED income £83k
• THE OPEN THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £903k
• 20 STORIES HIGH income £627k
• SUNDERLAND THEATRE COMPANY income £42k
• THE ENGLISH CONCERT income £1.4m
• QUARANTINE income £563k

Side by side with its peers

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