COVENTRY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 506185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COVENTRY PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

Bringing good quality classical choral music to the public. Training the choir and encouraging music students to practice their craft (e.g. conducting, composing). Encouraging future choristers by having a zero membership fee for students. Presenting concerts by the choir including employing high class soloists and musicians.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC, BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.

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: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £5,239 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves increasing to £27,615. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of £15,000 to cover unforeseen expenditure. The charity is an unincorporated entity managed by a board of trustees.

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 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Simmonschair
• Agata Jakubowska
• Celia Lewis
• Clare Gelsthorpe
• Hilary Ward
• Jay Durrant
• Jeanette Weston
• Linda Wieczerzynska
• Raymond Neil Kingdon
• Richard White
• Rosamund Myers

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORKSHIRE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR LIMITED.

• YORKSHIRE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR LIMITED income £60k
• HUNTINGDONSHIRE PHILHARMONIC income £43k
• LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £95k
• FULHAM AND HAMMERSMITH CHORAL SOCIETY income £41k
• THAMES PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £96k
• THE TONBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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