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Registered charity · Manchester

Halle Concerts Society

Halle Concerts Society is a registered charity (number 223882) based in Manchester, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Deborah Anne Francis since 2023. Latest income £11m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Halle Orchestra (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £11m (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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.halle.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Halle Concerts Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£11m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£9.7m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.3m£8.8m
  • 2021£7.7m£6.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 30%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ART OF MUSIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY THE GIVING AND ARRANGEMENT OF CONCERTS AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS IS THOUGHT FIT.

Grants received

13 grants · £5,726,497 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

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.

10 trustees on the board

5.6y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 10Education/training 10Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 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 10Arts and leisure 9Professional services 5

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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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£10.8m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.8 in 2021

117 from 120 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
223882
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 20 DEC 1946 AS AMENDED ON 31 MAR 1950, 27 NOV 1956,12 FEB 1968,30 NOV 1970,16 DEC 1974,31 OCT 1979,28 OCT 1985, 9 OCT 1990, 23 NOVEMBER 1998,18 OCTOBER 1999, 27 OCTOBER 2003, 18 APRIL 2005 AND 28 OCTOBER 2008.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 OCT 2009 as amended on 08 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 00062753 · Active
Contact on the register
01612377000 · info@halle.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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