Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 8

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 8

ORA CHOIR

To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of the Arts, in particular choral music by the presentation of concerts and recordings, the commissioning of composers and the support of young musicians.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
30/06/23		£182	£232	£-50	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/22		£170	£190	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
30/06/21		£212	£131	£81	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/20	*	£274	£266	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/19		£223	£223	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/18		£232	£250	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/17		£228	£214	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/16	*	£318	£265	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years

orasingers.com

matthew.beale@orasingers.com

07949109177

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

John Ellerman Foundation	£132,000
The Foyle Foundation	£40,000
The Linbury Trust	£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Composers Pathway - ORA singers
£20,000	05/10/2023	A one off grant to support the youth focused Composers Pathway.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000	28/04/2023	towards core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	12/03/2021	Core costs- underpinning ORA Singers activities for 2021/22
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000	11/02/2021	towards core costs in yearend March 2022 (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£132,000	26/03/2020 36	Core costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-75

RT HON PATRICIA HOPE HEWITT (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: FUEL ALLOTMENT,

ANNAMARIA KOERLING Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Head Of Wealth Management

LIZZIE RIDDING Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Non-Executive Director

MARK TATLOW Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Company Director

PROFESSOR PAUL MAX EDLIN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: University Lecturer, Other trusteeship: THE CANTORIS CHARITABLE TRUST,

PROF HENRIETTA BOWDEN-JONES Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE,

DR MICHELLE CASTELLETTI Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Artistic Director/Conductor, Other trusteeship: INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/01/2015, number: 1160228
Registered at Companies House on 17/06/2014, number: 09090039

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Safeguarding policy and procedures

Filing Record

8 returns made; AR20: 112 days late, AR16: 10 days late,

Main office

ORA Choir
8 Holyrood Street
LONDON
SE1 2EL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR CHORAL MUSIC BY ESTABLISHING AND DEVELOPING CHORAL LEADERS TO RUN CHOIRS AND BY PUBLIC PERFORMANCE.

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