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Registered charity · Cambridgeshire

Britten Sinfonia LTD

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2026)
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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, Recreation
Where
Throughout London, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk
Website
www.brittensinfonia.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Britten Sinfonia LTD.
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£1.6m£1.9m
  • 2025£2.2m£2.2m
  • 2024£1.8m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2023£1.7m£1.5m
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OR SCIENCE OF MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PERFORMING AND PROVIDING PUBLIC CONCERT RECITALS AND LECTURES, AND BY PROVIDING EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.

Grants received

12 grants · £1,425,677 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 · £1,050,402 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £180,000 (2 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £150,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £29,750
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £15,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £150,0002025-02-24
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £29,7502023-10-18
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £237,1882023-02-09
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £406,6072021-12-08
  • Youth Music £5252020-03-06
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

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
13.7y
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 8Recreation 8

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 11Finance 9Professional services 5

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£2.2m 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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.7 in 2021

12 from 13 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
291245
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 MARCH 1980 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 25 MARCH 1983, 9 JULY 1990, 14 MARCH 1996 AND 15 SEPTEMBER 2005.
Companies House
Company number 01486893 · Active
Contact on the register
01223300795 · meurig.bowen@brittensinfonia.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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