Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -8
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Latest return overdue -5
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

THE LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TRUST

The promotion of chamber music and education in chamber music with particular reference to the London Chamber Orchestra.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
  • and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/22*£305£389£-84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/21£268£231£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/20*£240£354£-114n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/19£448£299£148n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/18*£360£378£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/17£297£363£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/16£301£336£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/15£301£535£-234n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/14£448£496£-48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/13£388£352£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/12?£510£345£165£1£438£0n/a00
31/03/11£269£294£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£177£233£-55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£114£252£-137n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£225£124£101n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£370£12£358n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£36£17£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£20£16£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£2£0£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 37 years

trust@lco.co.uk

01760 722275

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£189,705
John Lyon's Charity£134,200
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
The Childhood Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 28/11/2023
towards core costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to London Chamber Orchestra Trust
£9,000 27/01/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£105,485 23/03/2022
This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
John Lyon's Charity - Small grant to London Chamber Orchestra Trust
£2,200 25/11/2021
JLC Celebrating 30 Years - LCO Music Junction performance
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£84,220 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to London Chamber Orchestra Trust
£123,000 16/06/2021
LCO Music Junction
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 26/03/2021
Core costs for our Annual Programme to June 2021; 1. free streamed concerts to reach new audiences 2. pioneering Music Junction schools programme targeted children with disabilities or who are excluded
The Childhood Trust - LCO Music Junction
£5,000 08/12/2020
LCO's Music Junction brings together young people from very different social and economic backgrounds. Through music making, it promotes community, confidence and self-esteem. The project culminates in celebratory concerts with the London Chamber ....more
The Childhood Trust - Music Junction Showcase Concerts
£5,000 10/12/2019
LCO's Music Junction brings together young people from very different social and economic backgrounds. Through music making, it promotes community, confidence and self-esteem. The project culminates in concerts with the London Chamber Orchestra at ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£10,000 04/12/2018
Music Junction brings together young people from very different social and economic backgrounds. Through music making, it promotes confidence and nurtures self-esteem. The project culminates in concerts with the entire London Chamber Orchestra at ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/07/2017
Music Junction
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to London Chamber Orchestra
£10,100 27/06/2017
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Music Junction
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CHRISTOPHER MARTIN CHILDS Appointed: 2023
  • ELIZABETH ANNE RAFFERTY Appointed: 2024
  • GIORGI KHARAZISHVILI Appointed: 2024
  • MICHAEL TIMINIS (Chair) Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/12/1987, number: 297852
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 143 days late, AR20: 112 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR07: 47 days late,
Main office

London Chamber Orchestra Trust
1 Green Way
SWAFFHAM
Norfolk
PE37 7FD

Objectives

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE ARTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND SINGING AND TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC TASTE AND APPRECIATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THERIN.(2) TO EDUCATE ASSIST IN OR FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF ANY ONE OR MORE PERSONS BEING STUDENTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC WHETHER THE STUDY OR WORK OF ANY SUCH PERSON OR PERSONS IS DEVOTED WHOLLY OR PARTLY TO THE ART OF MUSIC AS EXECUTANT COMPOSER TRANSCRIBER OR WRITER AND WHETHER IN A PROFESSIONAL OR AMATEUR CAPACITY AND WHOM THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SELECT AS BEING IN THEIR OPINION OF ESPECIAL MERIT AND DESERVING OF SUCH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT AS AFORESAID THIS OBJECT BEING FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING THE STANDARDS OF THE ARTS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC AND SINGING AND PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE SAME.(3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG POOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS THEIR WIVES WIDOWS CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS BY SUPPORTING EDUCATING ASSISTING MAINTAINING OR OTHERWISE BENEFITING ANY ONE OR MORE SUCH PERSONS BEING IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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