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Orchestra of the AGE of Enlightenment

Registered charity 295329 Registered since 1986

Operates: Throughout England, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Malta

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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

12.7y
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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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

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Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.oae.co.uk
Emailinfo@oae.co.uk
Phone02072399370
AddressOAE, Acland Burghley School, 93 Burghley Road, London, NW5 1UH

Finances

£4,007,726 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,868,159£2,067,057
2022£3,154,246£3,321,046
2023£2,881,188£3,199,499
2024£3,814,399£3,739,134
2025£4,007,726£4,231,322

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Services

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

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

Trustees (15)

15trustees
54median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Orchestra of the AGE of Enlightenment · 02040312 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 23/07/1986

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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