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Registered charity · Buckinghamshire

Garsington Opera Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £9.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
garsingtonopera.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Garsington Opera Limited
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.9m£9.1m
  • 2024£10m£8.4m
  • 2023£12m£7.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£6.7m
  • 2021£10m£6.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF OPERA, MUSIC, SINGING, DRAMA, BALLET, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. B) TO SUPPORT SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AS THE COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT SHALL IN ITS DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Grants received

8 grants · £390,500 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.1y
average years in governance
9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 14Finance 7Education 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 14.9 in 2020

24 from 13 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1003042
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 DECEMBER 1990, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 23RD MAY 1995
Companies House
Company number 02567390 · Active
Contact on the register
01494376037 · office@garsingtonopera.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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