NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA LIMITED

Registered charity 800541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEW LONDON CONCERT TRUST LIMITED

The New London Orchestra offers music projects including concerts, recordings, and music-related education and outreach projects in schools and in the wider community. All projects aim to have an education element, whether through choice of repertoire, or through bringing the experience of live music to places it might not otherwise reach.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS OF MUSIC AND SINGING, BY PRESENTING AND PROMOTING, ORGANISING PROVIDING, MANAGING AND PRODUCING SUCH CONCERTS MUSICAL PIECES, OPERAS, OPERETTAS, BALLETS, ENTERTAINMENTS, LITERARY AND VISUAL MATERIAL AND EXHIBITIONS WHETHER ON ANY PREMISES OF THE COMPANY OR ELSE WHERE AS ARE NECESSARY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON AREA

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: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£62k
Latest spending
£59k
Registered
1989
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £58,525 at the end of the financial year. The trustees acknowledge that the organization continues to rely on the support of generous individuals to meet liabilities until alternative long-term funding sources are found, which has led to a 'noted' going concern status due to dependency on this support.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“With this support in mind along with the previous grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation, we consider the use of the going concern assumption to be appropriate.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: 17
“The Hon. I MacGregor was paid £5,246 (2024: £6,540) for consultancy fees during the year. During the accounting period the charity received Trustee donations totalling £200.” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 1

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£62k£59k
31/08/2024£107k£96k
31/08/2023£72k£69k
31/08/2022£90k£75k
31/08/2021£83k£77k

Common questions

Is NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £58,525 at the end of the financial year. The trustees acknowledge that the organization continues to rely on the support of generous individuals to meet liabilities until alternative long-term funding sources are found, which has led to a 'noted' going concern status due to dependency on this support. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund10/11/2006£10kNewham Welcomes The World 2007
The National Lottery Community Fund22/04/2004£4kInterpretation at the Bloomsbury festival

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON CITY ORCHESTRA.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA LIMITED£62k—0unclear—noted
LONDON CITY ORCHESTRA FY2025£47k—0unclear—no doubt
NEW LONDON SINGERS FY2025£27k—0unclear—no doubt
LONDON CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA FY2025£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
THE ORCHESTRA OF THE CITY FY2025£28k—0unclear—no doubt
NEW NOTE PROJECTS FY2026£129k——below—no doubt

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