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Registered charity · Bristol

National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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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 And Wales
Website
nco.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.4m
  • 2021£742k£736k
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN MUSIC AND ORCHESTRAL PLAYING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS THROUGH THE FORMATION OF AN ORCHESTRA OR ORCHESTRAS COMPOSED OF SUCH PERSONS.

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.

16 trustees on the board

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (3)

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 16Education/training 16Accommodation/housing 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.

Health and social care 15Arts and leisure 9Finance 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m 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.

5.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.4 in 2021

15 from 8 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
803026
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/02/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/06/0199AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/06/2015 as amended on 14 Aug 2019 as amended on 14 Aug 2019
Companies House
Company number 02471385 · Active
Contact on the register
0117 235 0373 · B.Mackenzie@NCO.ORG.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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