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Registered charity · Bristol

The Bristol Ensemble LTD

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £713k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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
Wiltshire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City
Website
www.bristolensemble.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Bristol Ensemble LTD.
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£713k£719k
  • 2024£644k£662k
  • 2023£490k£484k
Earlier years
  • 2022£370k£356k
  • 2021£162k£149k
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION, PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF A CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND SMALLER GROUPINGS OF MUSICIANS, OF THE HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL STANDARD, AND BY THE PROVISION OF CONCERTS, RECITALS AND PERFORMANCES OF CLASSICAL MUSIC IN BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SOMERSET, WILTSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

Board analysis for researchers

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.

7 trustees on the board

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

22.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 7Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 1

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 13Education 6Health and social care 6

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£713k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

1
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
1075201
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 JANUARY 1998. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26 MARCH 2010.
Companies House
Company number 03496857 · Active
Contact on the register
07813 043809 · info@bristolensemble.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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