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Registered charity (CIO) · Buckinghamshire

Waterperry Opera Festival

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £748k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Oxfordshire, Kent, Staffordshire, Camden and more
Website
www.waterperryoperafestival.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Waterperry Opera Festival
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£748k£697k
  • 2024£621k£589k
  • 2023£615k£629k
Earlier years
  • 2022£426k£420k
  • 2021£229k£246k
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1.1 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE ARTS, BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING AN OPERA FESTIVAL FOR THE PUBLIC'S APPRECIATION OF, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH, OPERA, MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS. 1.2 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, BY TRAINING YOUNG ARTISTS IN THE PRESENTATION OF OPERA, MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS, AS PART OF THE OPERA FESTIVAL REFERRED TO IN 1.1 ABOVE

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.

7 trustees on the board

5.6y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (6)

3
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 6Environment/conservation/heritage 2Accommodation/housing 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Arts and leisure 4Business services 2Retail and trade 2

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£748k 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.1 in 2021

2 from 1 in 2023
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
1177966
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Apr 2018 as amended on 06 Nov 2018 as amended on 11 May 2023
Companies House
Company number CE013808 · Active
Contact on the register
07825755075 · info@waterperryoperafestival.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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