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Registered charity · Dorset

Dorset Opera

Dorset Opera is a registered charity (number 1105318) based in Dorset, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Garry Peter Batt since 2016. Latest income £884k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £884k (2025)
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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
Dorset
Website
www.dorsetopera.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dorset Opera
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£884k£822k
  • 2024£822k£837k
  • 2023£654k£664k
Earlier years
  • 2022£652k£622k
  • 2021£437k£467k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, IN OPERA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:· ORGANISING SUMMER SCHOOLS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ASPIRING SINGERS, MUSICIANS AND PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL BASED IN DORSET AND FURTHER AFIELD; AND · PRESENTING HIGH QUALITY OPERATIC PRODUCTIONS INVOLVING, WHERE POSSIBLE, SIGNIFICANT ROLES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHORISTERS

Grants received

1 grant · £10,000 total

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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.

7y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (4)

6
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 9Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 2Religious Activities 2Environment/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.

Education 8Other services 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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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£884k latest income
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: 4.0 months · was 2.3 in 2021

0
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
1105318
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 JULY 2004AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 15 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 05170704 · Active
Contact on the register
01258840000 · info@dorsetopera.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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