St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir

Analysis

St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury St Edmunds. It was registered in November 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir reported income of £42k and spending of £43k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £12k to £42k (+242%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 335%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bath Opera (£42k), Salzburg Easter Festival Foundation (£42k) and Lach Dennis Village Hall (£42k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.