NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 515660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR (GREAT BRITAIN) LTD

To give the opportunity to groups of young people to perform together in choirs by running residential through the year culminating in the performance of major concerts.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR CHORAL MUSIC.

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN

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: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an annual deficit of £123,874 for the year ended 30 September 2025, driven by planned investments in access initiatives and financial assistance for members. Total reserves stood at £249,181, with free unrestricted reserves of £59,554 after deducting designated and restricted funds. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 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 (66% 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: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ROPER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Georgina Alison Robb
• Gillian Frances Hillier OBE
• Gregor Stanley Watson · trustee of 2 other charities
• JAMES OLLEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Margaret O'Shea
• Michael John Strutt · trustee of 7 other charities
• Siu-Wai Ng
• Tamsin Verity Anderson
• Thomas James Shahani-Tuckwell

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CHOIR OF GREAT BRITAIN.

• NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CHOIR OF GREAT BRITAIN income £333k
• BARNSLEY YOUTH CHOIR CIO income £521k
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN income £5.2m
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN income £4.0m
• FARNHAM YOUTH CHOIR income £76k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m

Side by side with its peers

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