Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 10

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

1 Trustee: -5

Grant maker support: +10

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:

There is only 1 trustee

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 36 years

trust@lco.co.uk

01760 722275

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
30/06/22	*	£305	£389	£-84	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/06/21		£268	£231	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/06/20	*	£240	£354	£-114	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/06/19		£448	£299	£148	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/06/18	*	£360	£378	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/06/17		£297	£363	£-66	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/06/16		£301	£336	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/06/15		£301	£535	£-234	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/06/14		£448	£496	£-48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/06/13		£388	£352	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
30/06/12?		£510	£345	£165	£1	£438	£0	n/a	0
31/03/11		£269	£294	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/10		£177	£233	£-55	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/09		£114	£252	£-137	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/08		£225	£124	£101	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/07	*	£370	£12	£358	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/06		£36	£17	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£20	£16	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£2	£0	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Throughout London,

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

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 ....more 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 ....more 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 viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
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 ....more 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 ....more 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 Orchestra.
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 ....more 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 participating schools and London's Cadogan Hall.
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 ....more 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 participating schools and London's Cadogan Hall.
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 12	Music Junction

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How is it governed?

Trustees (1)

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN CHILDS (Chair) Appointed: 2023

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

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