Registered charity · London

HGO Trust LTD

9 trustees
Income £176k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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: Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Hertfordshire, Throughout London
Website: www.hgo.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: HGO Trust LTD
Registered: 2016

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£176k£195k
2024£149k£179k
2023£231k£186k

Earlier years

2022£137k£118k
2021£57k£60k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC AND OPERATIC MUSIC IN PARTICULAR BY ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING THE STUDY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF OPERATIC ART AND BY PROMOTING AND/OR ORGANISING PERFORMANCES, CONCERTS, LECTURES AND READINGS OF OPERA OPERETTA AND MUSICAL WORKS GENERALLY TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARD IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE.

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.6y median 6y

average tenure

10y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (4)

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 3General Charitable Purposes 2

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 10Professional services 2Business 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£176k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1168484
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 MAR 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08 MAR 2019
Companies House: Company number 10085558 · Active
Contact on the register: 07711956898 · shelley@hgo.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th 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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