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Registered charity · London

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Trust

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £3.1m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.oxfordphil.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Trust
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.1m£2.7m
  • 2024£2.9m£2.8m
  • 2023£3.0m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS, INCLUDING THE CARRYING ON OF ACTIVITIES OF THE ORCHESTRA KNOWN AS THE OXFORD PHILOMUSICA, AND TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Grants received

5 grants · £209,000 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.

7.3y median 5y
average tenure
22y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.2y
average years in governance
13
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15General Charitable Purposes 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 21Arts and leisure 9Finance 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£3.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

5.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

12 from 10 in 2021
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
1084256
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/08/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/12/2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/06/2015
Companies House
Company number 03608496 · Active
Contact on the register
01865987222 · info@oxfordphil.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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