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Registered charity · Birmingham

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £8.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and more
Website
www.cbso.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.6m£11m
  • 2024£10m£11m
  • 2023£9.3m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.3m£9.6m
  • 2021£6.9m£6.3m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE MUSICAL EDUCATION AND TO ENCOURAGE THE ARTS, OF MUSIC, MIME, DRAMA, SINGING AND DANCING. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

14 trustees on the board

4.6y median 3.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 14Education/training 2General 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 18Education 10Professional services 10

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£8.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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

118 from 103 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.
34 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
506276
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/06/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/04/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/09/2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 24/08/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/07/2015
Companies House
Company number 01262018 · Active
Contact on the register
01216166500 · information@cbso.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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