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Orchestra of the AGE of Enlightenment

Orchestra of the AGE of Enlightenment is a registered charity (number 295329) based in London, governed by 15 trustees. Latest income £4.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2025)

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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, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark and more
Website
www.oae.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Orchestra of the AGE of Enlightenment
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.0m£4.2m
  • 2024£3.8m£3.7m
  • 2023£2.9m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.2m£3.3m
  • 2021£1.9m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ART OF MUSIC (INCLUDING OPERA, MUSIC, DRAMA, SINGING AND ALL FORMS CONSISTING IN WHOLE OR PART OF MUSIC) AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AS PLAYED ON PERIOD INSTRUMENTS

Grants received

17 grants · £982,596 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.

4y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (4)

15
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 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 24Finance 18Education 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.8m 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.6 in 2020

18 from 17 in 2020
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
295329
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/07/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/01/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/05/2013 as amended on 04 Sep 2019
Companies House
Company number 02040312 · Active
Contact on the register
02072399370 · info@oae.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
Labels
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