THE CITY OF CHESTER MALE VOICE CHOIR

Registered charity 501974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CESTRIAN MALE VOICE CHOIR

The choir has a professional musical director and accompanists who receive an honorarium. The choir rehearses once a week (Sunday evenings) and sings at concerts in the Chester, Wirral and North Wales areas to raise funds for various charities.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF MUSIC AND FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND TASTE IN THE SAID ART BY GIVING PUBLIC PERFORMANCES, AND TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, GOODWILL AND THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC AMONGST ITS MEMBERS AND AUDIENCES

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: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £7,156 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £26,714 to £19,558. The Treasurer's report notes that this loss was mainly due to writing off sheet music and that the charity needs to increase yearly cash flow by approximately £2,000 per annum from 2027 to avoid ongoing decline.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chester Male Voice Choir (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ronald Websterchair
• Aled Jones
• David Marks
• Dr Christopher George Oleshko
• Ian Blair Wilson
• Philip Taylor
• Richard Cain

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Flintshire · Wirral

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORCESTER MALE VOICE CHOIR.

• WORCESTER MALE VOICE CHOIR income £64k
• THE COTSWOLD MALE VOICE CHOIR income £32k
• CITY CHORUS income £41k
• THE DORE MALE VOICE CHOIR income £36k
• BEVERLEY MALE VOICE CHOIR income £27k
• LONDON WELSH MALE VOICE CHOIR income £62k

Side by side with its peers

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