LEEDS FESTIVAL CHORUS

Registered charity 517127 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting public education and appreciation of music by performing in and promoting concerts and supporting young singers through a youth choir

Objects

The objects of the Charity shall be:to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public events.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on ordinary activities of £2,607 for the year ended 31 July 2025, reducing total reserves to £73,848. The trustees note that unrestricted liquid reserves of £49,153 are lower than twelve months of unrestricted ordinary expenditure (£56,833), though they consider this level roughly equal to expected future expenditure. The trustees confirm there are 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 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Kenneth Charles Smith
• Caroline Stanyard
• Christopher Mark Foren
• Dr James William David Moxon
• Elizabeth Alexandra Palmer
• Emma Frances Elgie
• FIONA KIRKBY
• Peter Huw Coltman

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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