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Registered charity · Liverpool

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society is a registered charity (number 230538) based in Liverpool, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Louise Claire Shepherd since 2022. Latest income £13m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.liverpoolphil.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£15m
  • 2024£13m£15m
  • 2023£12m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£11m
  • 2021£8.5m£8.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY MUSICAL EDUCATION, AND FOR THIS PURPOSE TO ENCOURAGE THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE AND SINGING AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE

Grants received

25 grants · £11,889,383 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

3y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
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 10

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 14Professional services 2Hospitality 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£12.6m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.4 in 2021

306 from 251 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
230538
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31/03/1906 REDRAWN 28/03/1989 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON 20/11/1985, 04/09/1986, 20/07/1987, 24/07/1989, 15/07/1991, 8/07/1993, 3/8/2000, 25/10/2004 AND 03/11/2014
Companies House
Company number 00088235 · Active
Contact on the register
01512102895 · accounts@liverpoolphil.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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