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Registered charity · Leeds

Orchestras Live

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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People on this board also serve on 2 other charities:

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.orchestraslive.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Orchestras Live
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£857k£974k
Earlier years
  • 2022£833k£1.0m
  • 2021£932k£595k
Charitable objects

A) PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR MUSICAL EDUCATION AND MUSICAL ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BY:I) ORGANISING, MANAGING AND PROVIDING ORCHESTRAS, ORCHESTRAL, INSTRUMENTAL, VOCAL AND CROSS-ARTFORM PERFORMANCES AND RELATED EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES; ANDII) ASSISTING LOCAL AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES, FESTIVALS, CONCERT PROMOTERS AND OTHER BODIES IN ORGANISING, MANAGING AND PROVIDING ORCHESTRAS, ORCHESTRAL, INSTRUMENTAL, VOCAL AND CROSS-ARTFORM PERFORMANCES AND RELATED EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES; ANDB) CARRY OUT ANY OTHER PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

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.

3.8y median 3.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12

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 15Finance 2Business services 1

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£1.1m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.5 in 2021

15 from 9 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.
17%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1117211
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 NOVEMBER 2006
Companies House
Company number 05988211 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 030 1160 · info@orchestraslive.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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