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Registered charity · Birmingham

Birmingham Opera Company

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £824k (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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell and more
Website
www.birminghamopera.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birmingham Opera Company
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£824k£750k
  • 2024£870k£1.3m
  • 2023£840k£693k
Earlier years
  • 2022£642k£447k
  • 2021£710k£769k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 73%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC BY THE PRODUCTION ARRANGEMENT, PROMOTION AND COMMISSIONING OF OPERA AND OTHER MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND CONCERTS AND TO FOSTER INTEREST IN SUCH OPERAS CONCERTS AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY SUCH MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE BY THE COMPANY.

Grants received

4 grants · £511,339 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £486,433
  • Youth Music · £16,456
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £4,950
  • Fenton Arts Trust · £3,500

Most recent

  • Fenton Arts Trust £3,5002022-03-31
  • Youth Music £16,4562017-11-17
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £486,4332017-06-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,9502006-03-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

5.5y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 8Education/training 8General 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.

Arts and leisure 9Other services 4Education 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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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£824k 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.

8.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.1 in 2021

3 from 4 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
291130
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24TH SEPTEMBER 1984 AND AMENDED 24TH JANUARY 1985 AND 29TH APRIL 1987 AND 1 OCTOBER 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 14 SEP 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 JUL 2012
Companies House
Company number 01850467 · Active
Contact on the register
01212466644 · info@birminghamopera.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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