Finance Score: -11
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA LIMITED 

The principal object of the charity is:to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in all aspects of the arts including music, drama, mime and dance; to contribute to the development of public appreciation of art through the presentation of public performances;to further the social and cultural welfare of communities of various London boroughs and UK communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 41 years

www.cls.co.uk

info@cls.co.uk

02076212800

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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
31/03/22*£1,008£1,157£-149£118£21£80.1100
31/03/21£713£679£34£112£90£300.590
31/03/20£1,222£1,428£-206£107£28£90.1100
31/03/19£1,347£1,422£-74£102£157£910.890
31/03/18£1,210£1,284£-74£88£146£970.990
31/03/17*£1,494£1,449£45£106£144£900.7120
31/03/16*£1,556£1,605£-49£100£19£100.1100
31/03/15£1,402£1,381£22£15£68£6090
31/03/14*£1,611£1,639£-28£15£46£4080
31/03/13£1,329£1,416£-87£14£74£380.380
31/03/12*£1,519£1,533£-14£14£163£125190
31/03/11*£1,161£1,274£-112£14£184£1711.670
31/03/10*£1,421£1,518£-97£15£287£2702.170
31/03/09£1,591£1,529£62£14£339£1751.470
31/03/08£1,933£1,782£151£26£340£1230.880
31/03/07*£1,942£1,751£191£13£200£0080
31/03/06£2,061£2,011£50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,579£1,577£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,625£1,589£36£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 91%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 38%
Reserves/Spending: 0.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 10 employees

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
DCMS£241,750
John Ellerman Foundation£90,000
Youth Music£79,340
The Foyle Foundation£69,000
City Bridge Trust£16,934
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000 28/11/2023
towards core costs during new strategic shift
Co-Operative Group - Grant to City of London Sinfonia
£1,651 22/10/2022
Sound Young Minds is an award-winning project that builds confidence and self-esteem in young people living with severe mental health and psychiatric conditions, through music-making and sharing.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£39,000 08/02/2022
towards salary and on-costs to hire a second Participation Producer and bring existing producer’s salary to same level to work on their music and healthcare project
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£90,000 25/11/2021
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Core costs
The Childhood Trust - Breaking down barriers to music access
£2,500 08/12/2020
CLS brings together people who believe that music has the power to transform lives. Our seriously informal style works to break down barriers between musicians and audiences, whether that's on a ....more
The Childhood Trust - Wellbeing through Music
£5,000 03/07/2020
CLS is an orchestra whose musicians come together in the shared belief that music transforms the lives of people across all areas of society. We work in adolescent psychiatric hospital schools, ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to City Of London Sinfonia Limited
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will support the organisation to provide online concerts for children and young people who are in hospital and isolated due to Covid-19, increasing their emotional wellbeing ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to City of London Sinfonia
£16,934 05/06/2020
£16,934 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 22/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Youth Music - Sound Young Minds
£79,340 24/04/2020
Sound Young Minds
DCMS - Diary of a Young Naturalist
£40,000 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - City of London Sinfonia
£75,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - City of London Sinfonia
£123,750 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£5,000 04/12/2018
Young people come to Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital from all over the UK to receive treatment for mental health illnesses. CLS musicians have the unique ability to engage these young people and others ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to City Of London Sinfonia Limited
£50,400 23/10/2018
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Music-making sessions for 1500 children and young people aged 0-18 who are in hospital. Individually tailored sessions will empower children by allowing them to make choices, improve their ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs, specifically salaries of the Creative Director and Chief Executive
£75,000 29/03/2018
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Towards the salaries of the Chief Executive and Creative Director to continue the orchestra's aim of breaking down barriers between musicians and audiences though its 'seriously informal' style of ....more
The Childhood Trust - Wellbeing through Music at Bethlem and Maudsley
£5,000 05/12/2017
Young people come to Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital from all over the UK to receive treatment for mental health illnesses. CLS musicians have the unique ability to engage these young people and others ....more
Youth Music - Music for Children: Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School
£78,480 05/05/2017
Music for Children: Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School
The Childhood Trust - Tower Hamlets Children's Music Project
£5,000 02/12/2016
Help us bring the world of orchestral music to disadvantaged young children and families in Tower Hamlets. Your donations will enable us to offer access to high quality live music in a fun and ....more
Dunhill Medical Trust - L'Chaim, Living Music Programme
£36,000 08/12/2015
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This project brings together musicians with Jewish refugees and survivors of Nazi persecution, many of whom suffer from dementia, for a series of interactive concerts
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-79
  • JOHN SINGER (Chair) Appointed: 2000, Occupation: Company Chairman
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/04/1983, number: 286818
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/01/1983, number: 01692341
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 58 days late, AR17: 0 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 136 days late, AR12: 30 days late, AR11: 17 days late, AR10: 11 days late, AR07: 159 days late,
Main office

1st Floor
Radisson Court
219 Long Lane
London
SE1 4PB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC PARTICULARLY MUSICAL EDUCATION. TO ENCOURAGE THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA,MIME,AND DANCE AND TO FORMULATE PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES, PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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