Registered charity · Devon
Opera Australia Capital Fund UK
- 6 trustees
- Income £23k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Jeremy Bernard SoamesChair · since 2023
- Dame Rachel Mary de Souza DBETrustee · since 2024
- John Cecil Dauth AO LVOTrustee · since 2013
- Philip John BaconTrustee · since 2016
- SIR David GreenTrustee
- William Henry Frankel OBE FrssaTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 10 other charities:
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- Wits Foundation UK · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Linked company
- Opera Australia Capital Fund UK
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£23k£4k
- 2024£39k£56k
- 2023£24k£803
Earlier years
- 2022£37k£2k
- 2021£20k£446
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE SUCH GENERAL CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS ARE CHARITABLE AT LAW AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING WORDS) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS OF OPERA, MUSIC AND DANCE BY MAKING GRANTS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OPERA AUSTRALIA CAPITAL FUND, A CHARITABLE TRUST ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA AND HAVING AN ENDORSEMENT UNDER SUB-DIVISION 50-B OF THE AUSTRALIAN INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 (CTH) ("ITA") AS AN INCOME TAX EXEMPT CHARITABLE ENTITY AND ENDORSEMENT AS A DEDUCTIBLE GIFT RECIPIENT UNDER SUB-DIVISION 30-BA OF THE ITA, OR TO OPERA AUSTRALIA, A NON-PROFIT AUSTRALIAN INCORPORATED COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE ALSO HAVING AN ENDORSEMENT UNDER SUB-DIVISION 50-B OF THE ITA AS AS INCOME TAX EXEMPT CHARITABLE ENTITY AND ENDORSEMENT AS A DEDUCTIBLE GIFT RECIPIENT UNDER SUB-DIVISION 30-BA OF THE ITA.
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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.
6 trustees on the board
- Jeremy Bernard Soames Chair since 2023
- Dame Rachel Mary de Souza DBE since 2024
- John Cecil Dauth AO LVO since 2013
- Philip John Bacon since 2016
- SIR David Green
- William Henry Frankel OBE Frssa
Trustees past 6 years
- John Cecil Dauth AO LVO since 2013
- Philip John Bacon since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Dame Rachel Mary de Souza DBE since 2024
- Philip John Bacon since 2016
Portfolio (4)
- Jeremy Bernard Soames Chair since 2023
- John Cecil Dauth AO LVO since 2013
- SIR David Green
- William Henry Frankel OBE Frssa
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1112650
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13 DECEMBER 2005.
- Companies House
- Company number 05653043 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02074355657
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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