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Registered charity · Leeds

Opera North Limited

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £19m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England
Website
operanorth.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Opera North Limited
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£20m
  • 2024£18m£20m
  • 2023£18m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£16m
  • 2021£18m£11m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, FOSTER AND MAINTAIN FOR THE EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AN APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN GENERAL, WITH EMPHASIS ON OPERATIC, ORCHESTRAL, CHORAL AND OTHER MUSICAL WORKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

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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.

14 trustees on the board

4.6y median 4.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (10)

14
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 3General Charitable Purposes 2Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 40Finance 15Education 8

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£18.8m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.8 in 2021

249 from 231 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
511726
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13 MARCH 1981 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 2 JULY 1981, 14 JULY 2000 AND 19 AUGUST 2005
Companies House
Company number 01550778 · Active
Contact on the register
0113 2439999 · info@operanorth.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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