WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 506826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Worcester Festival Choral Society is one of the leading promoters of major concerts in Worcester. As well as being one of the oldest, it is one of the most highly regarded choirs in the country, with a singing membership of about 150. It gives three major concerts each year.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC, BY THE PRESENTATION OF CHORAL CONCERTS DURING A FESTIVAL SEASON AND AT OTHER TIMES AS OCCASION MAY ARISE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a financial profit of £6,484 for the year ended 31 May 2025, which the Treasurer describes as a one-off bonus largely due to legacy income and high bank interest rates, noting that core activities 'more or less broke even'. Total reserves stood at £123,892, comprising unrestricted funds and designated legacy and endowment funds, with no stated reserves policy target provided in the document.

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 policy and procedures
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Worcestershire Community Foundation — “Worcester Festival Choral Society expresses its grateful thanks to the following local businesses, for their generous Gold Patron support of…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Margaret Whitechair
• BARBARA ANNE FORD
• David John Haddock

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORCESTER FESTIVAL LTD.

• WORCESTER FESTIVAL LTD income £37k
• CHESTER ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY income £26k
• COLCHESTER CHORAL SOCIETY income £31k
• ROYSTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k
• CHELTENHAM CHORAL SOCIETY income £33k
• THE STAFFORD AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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