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Registered charity · London

Philharmonia LTD

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Austria, Belgium and more
Website
www.philharmonia.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Philharmonia Limited
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£11m
  • 2024£10m£10m
  • 2023£8.8m£9.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.7m£8.4m
  • 2021£13m£7.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF THE ART OF MUSIC (INCLUDING OPERA, MUSIC, DRAMA, BALLET AND ALL ART FORMS CONSISTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF MUSIC) PARTICULARLY BY THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC (“THE OBJECTS”).2.2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONGST PLAYING MEMBERS OF ANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOR THE TIME BEING MAINTAINED BY THE CHARITY AND THE DEPENDENTS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

18 grants · £3,329,593 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.

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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.

15 trustees on the board

1.5y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

14
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 15Education/training 15General 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 21Other services 5Professional services 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£11.1m latest income
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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.3 in 2021

40 from 36 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
250277
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 02 APRIL 1964 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 10/04/64, 31/03/66, 08/07/66, 20/08/69, 15/07/71, 10/10/79, 03/10/85, 03/03/89, 18/08/05 AND 18/12/08. as amended on 18 Dec 2016 as amended on 01 Apr 2020 as amended on 10 Jun 2020
Companies House
Company number 00799297 · Active
Contact on the register
02079213940 · finance@philharmonia.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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