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Registered charity · Leeds

Friends of Opera North

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £68k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Registered
1978

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£68k£61k
  • 2024£56k£52k
  • 2023£54k£72k
Earlier years
  • 2022£89k£145k
  • 2021£79k£3k
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, FOSTER AND ADVANCE IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND AND PARTICULARLY IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF OPERA CHORAL WORKS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS AND RELATED ORCHESTRAL WORKS AND TO CO-OPERATE WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURAL SOCIETIES RELATING TO THE PRACTICE, PRESENTATION AND STUDY OF OPERA IN ORDER TO PROMOTE BETTER AND MORE WIDESPREAD PERFORMANCES OF OPERA, CHORAL AND ORCHESTERAL WORKS.

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.

6 trustees on the board

5.2y median 4.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (6)

6
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 6Disability 1Education/training 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 19Hospitality 3Business services 2

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£68k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
507574
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 2 MAY 1978 AS AMENDED 9 MARCH 1981
Contact on the register
01132233534 · friends@operanorth.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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